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Chinese Christian Voices

Training Lay Leaders in China

The Hou Zaimen church in Jinan, Shandong Province has developed a system for training lay people and managing meeting points which are contributing to the spiritual growth of believers.

Chinese Christian Voices

Easter—the Way Out from Qingming

The Qingming Festival leaves observers with death; Easter opens the way for life through the work of Jesus Christ.

Blog Entries

New Religion Regulations to Take Effect in February

The long-awaited revision of the draft religion regulations circulated last September was signed into law last month and will take effect February 1, 2018.

CSQ Article

Traditional Culture’s Effect on China’s Younger Generations

Cultural Contextualization in China

The author looks at how Chinese youth today deal with filial piety and marriage as they feel both the tug of traditional cultural and the pull of other perceived “goods” in the larger complex, cultural environment of today’s China.

Blog Entries

China’s Church in an Age of Pluralism

In modern societies pluralism has the dual effect of both relativizing faith, forcing religious believers to acknowledge the presence of competing worldviews, and of fostering growth by creating new opportunities for them to live out their faith in the pluralist context.

ZGBriefs

December 27, 2012

For the Holidays, Hong Kong Decks Its Skyscrapers in Lights (December 24, 2012, The New York Times)

But this time of year, the spectacle ratchets up several notches. Out come vast, multicolored, complex designs that span many floors and make the Rockefeller Center in New York and Oxford Street in London pale by comparison. Frolicking reindeer, bobble-hatted snowmen, enormous Christmas trees adorn dozens of buildings, sometimes to startling effect.

Blog Entries

Unpacking the Shifting Narrative of Christianity in China

Sinicization, Chinafication, or Zhongguohua?

Sinicization, Chinafication, or Zhongguohua? Defining the term in question goes to the heart of understanding China’s current policy and its effect upon religious believers.

Blog Entries

Formed by Our Narratives

These narratives can also have a distorting effect upon those who employ them, for our China stories speak to more than simply what we think about China; they also reveal what we desire.

Blog Entries

The New Normal for Faith-Based, Foreign NGOs in China

Key Provisions of the New Law

The Law on the Management of Foreign Non-Governmental Organizations' Activities within Mainland China was passed on April 28, 2016 and will take effect January 1, 2017.

Supporting Article

Hope for HIV/AIDS in China

The effect of HIV/AIDS is increasing and is expected to affect 5% of the Chinese population in the next 20 years. What is being done to address the medical issues and the social stigma of this devastating disease? What have Christians dealing with HIV/AIDS in Africa learned that can be applied to the situation in China?