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View From the Wall
Opportunities and Challenges When Foreign Workers Leave China
[…] rural areas. Primarily funded from overseas. Generally lacking a team of teachers. If the workers leave, opportunities and challenges arise. Local leaders may seek support from multiple resources domestically and abroad which broadens their perspective as well as builds a local leadership team. As they broaden their perspective, they have the opportunity to […]
Lead Article
The Three-Self Patriotic Movement
Divergent Perspectives and Grassroots Realities
[…] loyalty oaths to the regime and the TSPM. By the mid-1950s, however, TSPM-affiliated churches (or official churches) became increasingly politicized as Maoist rhetoric replaced traditional sermons and multiple churches were forcibly merged into a handful of congregations and denominational identities erased. For example, Beijing had more than sixty churches before the mergers; afterwards, fewer […]
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 […]
Supporting Article
Hope for HIV/AIDS in China
[…] made its way to the central parts of China. It is now breaking out from the high risk groups to become a more “generalized” epidemic, fueled by multiple heterosexual (and perhaps occasional homosexual) relationships. Since 1979 for instance, sexually transmitted diseases in China have increased by fifteen to twenty percent per year! Seventy percent […]
Official Protestant Groups Plan Next Five Years of Sinicization
What Does the TSPM/CCC 5-Year Plan Tell Us about the Direction of Official Protestantism?
[…] of God,” a “Christology,” a “theory of man,” to an “ecclesiology,” all with “Chinese characteristics.” The phrase “with Chinese characteristics” has been a covering phrase used in multiple arenas to justify unique changes. For example, in economics, “Chinese characteristics” in practice has translated into partial state control of the economy (rather than a liberal […]
Peoples of China
China’s Migrant Children
[…] permanent urban residency have fueled the burgeoning urban population of school-aged rural youth who are born in the city or migrate there at a young age. Recent numbers from the China Children and Teenagers’ Fund estimate there are 20 million rural migrant children 14 years old or under in China, comprising 13% of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gospel Impact in East Africa
A Reader Responds
[…] minimal and had no lasting impact on the culture. Modern connections between China and East Africa began in earnest in the post-colonial Cold War era of the 1960-70s, particularly in Tanzania (Uganda and Ethiopia in those decades were aligned with the Soviet Union while Kenya remained connected to the West). The 21st century, however, […]
Rhythms of Spiritual Praxis as Discipleship from Karma to Atonement among Believers from a Tibetan Buddhist Background
[…] significant time attempting to share the truths of the gospel among Tibetan Buddhist peoples can attest to it being a difficult process. It is said that in 1892 Hudson Taylor said, “To make converts in Tibet is similar to going into a cave and trying to rob a lioness of her cubs.” Even after […]