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10 Months after Leaving China

[…] state of Indiana, but we’re still definitely in transition mode. China was the only home our three children ever knew, and it was my wife’s home for 19 years—almost her entire adult life. For me, I started my adult Asian trek back in 2002, 13 of those years were in the Middle Kingdom. Keeping […]

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Understanding and Engaging with the Post-Eighties Generation

<p>In China, the “post-eighties” denotes those who are were generally born during the 1980s. They are the earliest generation of those who became known in the West as the “Little Emperors” of China. Typically, they were raised in a family environment where all adults focused their attention on their only heir. R and J […]

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Reaching Those Who Aren’t Interested

[…] denied my name. The God we serve is a God who opens doors for us. And when he opens a door, no man can shut it. You may try to open doors in your own strength and fail because they are too strong for us. Sometimes you may succeed in opening a door on […]

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Globalization and House Churches in China

[…] saying in China goes like this: “Wherever there is sun, there are Chinese sweating. Wherever there is a moon, there are Chinese weeping.” Starting in the 80s, cheap laborers found their way to many parts of the world. On every continent you can find Chinese restaurants opened by immigrants from Wenzhou and Fuzhou (Foochow). […]

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The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration

What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know

[…] its interpretation belongs to the State Administration of Religious Affairs. In practice, this means that the Party-state is the final arbiter in any controversy or conflict that may arise between itself and religious organizations, as it—not a more independent source of authority such as the courts system—will decide disputes over, for example, the meaning […]

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Skills No Longer Needed

[…] more like the West Africans I know, the East Africans, or could be from the south. Realizing that when I see Black people in Australia that they may not want to be asked where they are from—the question may imply that they do not belong in this multicultural society. When in a park, being […]

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Toward a New Approach to Ministry in China

[…] to aid China with her training needs, there are many threats and obstacles. The task is overwhelming since the church has grown so large so rapidly. There may be a tendency toward paralysis in the face of such great need and the knowledge that any training program will not be perfect or ideal. On […]

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Reflections on the Role of Migrant Labor

[…] on average in one month what he would earn in an entire year at home. In this way, one family member who has gone to the coast may be able to support an entire family back in China’s rural interior. More and more government officials view migrant labor as a normal consequence of economic […]

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Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming

[…] being undone in a careful way, as many policies are implemented piecemeal then spread nationwide, Xi’s government abruptly imposed the policy reversal without consultation with local levels, leaving Chinese healthcare workers little time to prepare and avoid tens of thousands of covid-related deaths. This statistic spotlights the challenges of Xi’s rule: as Xi stokes […]

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The Three-Self Patriotic Movement

Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities

[…] that foreign missionary boards had too much control over Chinese churches. The concept gained support in the 1920s during the Anti-Christian Movement, in the aftermath of the May 4th movement against foreign imperialism. It gained real institutional form when Protestant elites, who had been selected by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for their loyalty, […]