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Partnering with Churches in China
Toward a New Paradigm
[…] ways as the believers outside China know that their Chinese brothers and sisters are praying for them as well. Sharing Experiences Christians in China are launching into new areas such as education, marriage and family ministry, service to their communities, and reaching non-Chinese both domestically and beyond China’s borders. In many cases there are […]
China’s Next War?
[…] city in China is experiencing significant problems with smog. (For a stark visual illustration, look at this map.) At the speed at which China is adding new cars on the road (China added more cars last year than the total number plying its roads in 1999 .) and building new coal-fired power plants […]
One Belt, One Road, One Mission?
[…] Christ’s redemptive purpose. “One Belt, One Road” could potentially be another one of those means. But drawing a straight line between OBOR and the success of a new mission movement from China may be overly optimistic, to say the least. In his South China Morning Post column, business writer Tom Holland questioned whether OBOR […]
Beyond the Standard Narrative
[…] authorities are actively hunting for the remaining unregistered congregations that continue to operate, and those reaching out to share their faith risk fines, detainment, or other punishments. New laws have banned religion from all but authorized Christian websites and licensed clergy.1 For those following the tightened restrictions on China’s Christians, these observations may 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 […]
Beyond “Two Camps”: The Complex Relationship between Official and Unregistered Church in China
[…] come significant changes in the TSPM's role, in China's religious policy, and in the unregistered church community, all of which have brought, and continue to bring, a new level of complexity to the relationship between China's official and unregistered church streams. These developments have resulted in a tense yet synergistic relationship between these two […]
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 […]
Consumerism and the Church in China
[…] wholesale and even endorsing the culture’s emphasis on material acquisition, the church will be challenged to demonstrate what it means to be stewards in God’s kingdom. China’s new generation of urban consumers, overwhelmed by a never-ending onslaught of commercial advertising and perplexing financial decisions, would likely welcome sound stewardship teaching were the church to […]
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 […]
Does China Need More Leadership Training?
[…] areas; or one could focus on traditionally marginalized groups such as urban migrants, the church among people with disabilities, the elderly, or women in ministry. Bring something new. Basic Bible, theology, and ministry skills were the mainstay of training in the 1980s and 1990s, but the church today is much better equipped to meet […]