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Does Christianity Have a Future in China?
[…] mode. Revival and explosive growth, especially among house churches in the countryside, highlighted the acute need for Bibles and trained leaders. (During the previous 30 years no new leaders had been trained, nor had any Bibles or other resources been produced.) Many outside the officially recognized church faced persecution. The church's challenges at this […]
The Mountains Are Shorter, Part 1
[…] as automobiles or housing. Given these incentives, they have worked hard to maintain their privileged positions. Now, as one commentator put it, “Times are a-changing. In this new era of ‘centralism, Xi style,’ provinces need to do the center’s bidding of ensuring economic security. In other words, Beijing wants to reset the 不听话 (‘intransigent’) […]
Mao’s Black Box: Resilience and Religious Revival in Wenzhou
A Book Review
Xiaoxuan Wang, Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Available on Amazon. After touring China in the early 1980s, Christian radio personality Carl Lawrence wrote about the Christians he met during his travels. His book, titled The Church in China: How It Survives […]
ChinaSource Perspective
More Blessed to Receive
[…] they received much more than they contributed. As one long-time China worker put it, “They may have left China, but China has not left them.” They gained new friendships. They left with cherished memories and with new perspectives on themselves and what it means to be a follower of Christ in a land not […]
Policy, Implementation, and Shifting Official Perceptions of the Church in China
[…] church in Chinese society. In this very fluid environment, the international Christian community has an opportunity to be proactive in supporting Christians who are carving out a new space for the church in Chinese society and in encouraging government officials to take risks in not merely allowing but also sanctioning a new degree of […]
Are China’s Churches Too Much Alike?
[…] situation in China appears particularly acute, perhaps due to the impact of rapid urbanization on the church’s development. As Christians have clustered in the cities and spawned new churches, urbanization has had a concentrating effect, bringing together a critical mass of people, ideas, and resources to create a new Christian culture. Meanwhile, pervasive social […]
From Here to There
The Straight-Line Fallacy
[…] church narrative, for example, envision a China in which Christians are free to exercise their faith without the restraints imposed upon them by a hostile government. They promote advocacy as the means to achieve this desired future, believing that political and economic pressure will eventually force the Chinese party-state to change its tact in […]
A Chinese Christian Observes Ramadan
[…] people whom they seek to serve. Along with experiencing these very tangible physical, emotional and spiritual effects of his fast, Mark also took from his month-long sojourn new insights into how cross-cultural workers from China need to prepare for their own lifetime journeys of service. He pondered new questions about what qualifications are needed […]
Changing Dynamics of Church Growth in China
[…] discussion and an invitation for further reflection on the dynamics of church growth in China today. Migration Evidence suggests that urban congregations continue to grow in size. New churches are being planted. While the picture may look encouraging, this growth is due in part to Christians migrating from the countryside, where many churches are […]
China’s Past as Key to the Present
Descriptions of life in China today often contain words like “unprecedented” and “fast-changing.” Yet in an effort to capture all that is new, such descriptions miss the fact that, in many respects, China has come this way before. As a civilization that has experienced cycles of opening and closing, renewal and decline, China’s current […]