Five Observations from a Week in China
...city are now handled via WeChat, the Chinese super app! Gone are the days of standing on the street corner trying to wave down a taxi—they are all booked through...
...city are now handled via WeChat, the Chinese super app! Gone are the days of standing on the street corner trying to wave down a taxi—they are all booked through...
...ago, early on in my itinerate ministry in China, I was teaching Romans 12:1, “I appeal to you therefore…” and used an American interpretive proverb—whenever you see “therefore” in the...
...incarnations throughout a heavily patriarchal imperial and modern China. Travel / Food International Airlines Leave China, Despite Beijing’s Urging (August 3, 2024, The Diplomat) The pandemic shut down global travel...
...next five years.7 To put this number in context, consider that before COVID-19, there were about 11,000 American students in China in 2019.8 During COVID-19 this number fell drastically. When...
...Foreign Affairs China Is Pushing Divisive Political Messages Online Using Fake U.S. Voters (September 3, 2024, NPR News) A long-running Chinese influence operation is posing as American voters on social...
...a global security leader. How Do Americans View #China (September 16, 2024, The National Committee On United States–China Relations) American ratings on #China have plummeted to an average of 32/100,...
...2024, Radio Free Asia) As US officials sought clarification on behalf of would-be American parents, the Manns were among those waiting in shock and anxiety at the prospect of not...
...of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, the first American Catholic women’s congregation to send missionaries to China, representative of the larger efforts of many Catholic congregations and missionaries who...
...moved by the idea of flying over so much culture and wisdom. Then during the in-flight press conference of his return flight to Rome, he stated, “Do I want to...
...Dominic, the first American Catholic women’s congregation to send missionaries to China, representative of the larger efforts of many Catholic congregations and missionaries who served in China at different times....
...brother and now I had 80 of them. I felt “cool” for the first time, as though I was finally a real American. When the novelty wore off, I was...
In 1973, I left my rural Christian childhood home and became a university student. I experienced the dissonance of a world that was much bigger, more diverse, more troubled, and...