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Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference

[…] loving their religion”). It encompasses a number of activities that are formal, such as registration of a new congregation, and informal, such as calling pastors on the phone to check on them. The overall goal is to “actively guide religions to adapt to socialist society,” which means to follow the line set by the […]

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Yan’s Conversion and Pentecostal Experience

[…] her family posed a very real threat to the Christians they were serving. Finally, through God’s mercy, Yan and her family were able to travel to the Philippines. Currently, she and her husband are serving at the Asia Pacific Theological Seminary with the hope that they might reach more people from this new platform […]

Peoples of China

China’s Migrant Children

[…] Global Times, Feb 25, 2010. http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-02/507860.html 3If “left behind” children of migrant workers, who remain in the villages without parental care, are included in these statistics, the number rises to 30 million total migrant children in China, comprising 20% of the compulsory school-aged student population. “Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons from […]

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Reverse Culture Shock

[…] activities. We became used to it being a time when the whole country stops for a holiday. But now, because we are white and in Australia, our phones are not filled with celebratory messages and photos nor are we welcomed into the celebration. Here it’s a celebration for the Asians in the community, or […]

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The Three-Self Patriotic Movement

Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities

[…] both official churches and house churches. Not only is the Xi government attempting to forcibly implement religious policy by eradicating house churches, it is also constricting the number of public worship spaces in Three-Self churches, and even announcing efforts to transform the meaning and practices of traditional Protestant worship through the “Sinicization” campaign. The […]

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Skills No Longer Needed

[…] that they do not belong in this multicultural society. When in a park, being aware at every moment of who is near my children and whether their phone is pointing at them. At the same time, monitoring the pulse of my children’s stress levels. Do they notice the attention on them and, today, do […]

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Reflections on China 2014: The Growing Environmental Crisis

[…] with smog (for a stark visual illustration, look at this map). The reasons are not hard to discover. China added more cars last year than the total number plying its roads in 1999, illustrating the challenges the government faces in controlling vehicular emissions and traffic congestion in its cities. The vehicle population reached 240 […]

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The Importance and Roles of Families and Church Leaders

[…] of the character of God. It declares that parents and grandparents are to teach children diligently the ways of the Lord. God established the family in Genesis 1 and 2, with Adam and Eve, and family is the core of every society. In these verses we find God’s instructions to the Israelites, and by […]

The Lantern

Faith and Generosity

Will the Church in China Make the Connection?

Generosity is an unequivocal characteristic of the life of a follower of Jesus Christ. It is the joyful life that flows freely and richly from a heart that has been set free by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is the way Christians bear the image of the God who "so loved the world that He gave "

Editorials

More Than Money

A Fresh Look at Biblical Stewardship

[…] and joy. I begin with the challenge to consider the difference between a counterfeit life and, as Paul puts it, the “life that is truly life.” ( 1 Timothy 6:19) The article concludes with my prayer that: “My brothers and sisters in China would pursue the true life God created us to live. May […]