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Healthy Partnering
A Chinese Perspective
[…] their shared experience. Rather, the issue of culture was seen largely as an “either-or” proposition. When asked about unique factors in the Chinese situation that could either promote or hinder partnering, several respondents listed cultural factors. One, reflecting on his or her own partnering experience, began with a rather strong Chinese idiom about Chinese […]
Beyond the Crosses
Wealth, Stewardship and the Wenzhou Church
[…] of one observer, because of the favorable social and political conditions, Competition to build churches had almost become the order of the day. As soon as a new church was built, it was torn down and rebuilt again! Before the new building was even filled with people, they began to build an even bigger […]
Editorials
Chinas Youth in Perspective
[…] of China by imperialist powers following World War I. In the wake of the Second World War, revolutionaries in the 1940s joined Mao in ushering in the new China. Later the “lost generation” of the Cultural Revolution again cast its lot with Mao, only to be discarded in the countryside following a period of […]
The Pilgrim Principle
Remembering Andrew Walls
[…] view of the spread of Christianity over the past 2,000 years, along with his prescient observation of the church’s southward shift during the past century, introduced a new vocabulary for talking about the global church as “polycentric.” As K.C. Wendell Tan of the Biblical Graduate School of Theology in Singapore noted, this understanding “has […]
Editorials
Facing Transitions
Life transitions—whether coming to China for the first time, leaving after a lifetime of ministry, moving to a new city or taking on a new assignment—can be a gateway to discovery or the death of a dream. Often they are both. In this issue we take a 360-degree look at transitions, viewing them through […]
3 Questions: Migration and Public Theology in China
[…] this referring to? The title of the book The Chinese Exodus alludes to how ancient Israelites broke free from Pharaoh’s old regime, only to find themselves in new forms of spiritual slavery. Rural migrants in China now have residential mobility to freely move around and live in the cities, but in their freer life […]
3 Questions: The 2018 World Watch List
[…] is a second point which needs to be kept in mind: the reporting period of the WWL 2018 ends at 31 October 2017, meaning that the already announced new regulations on religion were already known and had certain consequences, as most observers expect a more complicated situation. However, those rules will be implemented from 1 […]
4 Takeaways from Xi’s Speech on Religion
[…] at least some sense of the Party’s current position. The specific implications, particularly for China’s Christians, remain to be seen but will likely take shape as these directives find their way into new regulations and possibly a new law on religion in the coming year. Image Credit: the flag of China by zachary jean paradis via Flickr.
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Globalization: Is Anybody Home?
[…] few days ago, I found myself seated on a subway in a large Asian city, listening on my MP3 player to a message by a pastor in New York, while around me dozens of fellow passengers were deeply engrossed in conversation in at least three different languagesnone with one another. Chatting busily on their […]
China’s (Unfinished) Education Explosion
[…] witnessed by the flourishing of the "ant tribe," a community of job-seeking college graduates living in shared flats in northern Beijing's Tiantongyuan suburb. China's centuries-old test-taking culture promotes educational attainment as an accomplishment in and of itself. Unfortunately, unlike in Imperial China or even during the time of China' opening under Deng Xiaoping, there […]