Slow Growth and Nurtured Faith
...Three chairs surround a small tea table, a phone plays hymns, and a well-worn Bible rests nearby—the humble beginnings of a church. “At that time, I thought three people would...
...Three chairs surround a small tea table, a phone plays hymns, and a well-worn Bible rests nearby—the humble beginnings of a church. “At that time, I thought three people would...
...of hard line, periods of soft line, and consistent center–local variation. What matters most is not only the dates, but the habits Christians learned for living between lines. Slow Growth...
...also emerged. In conversations and interviews, some local church leaders expressed concern that highly integrated networks—expanding across cities with efficiency enabled by digital infrastructure—could place strain on local church ecosystems....
...came with many signs and wonders of God’s provisions, showing how the Holy Spirit could work through local spiritual traditions and affect the Chinese local people in their poverty and...
...more than two decades—holds an extraordinary archive. It has been a kind of grand library, and at times a treasure-filled maze, safeguarding research, reflections, and stories of Chinese Christianity from around the...
...The idiom “meritorious service earned through sweat and horses” (汗马功劳), traced to Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji, “Biography of Xiao He”), places a soldier’s exertion beside a warhorse’s sweat, forming a...
...continued to intensify, the total number of university admission slots has now exceeded the number of students in the corresponding age cohort. In order to sustain institutional operations, many universities have...
...and its future trajectory remains uncertain. As I write this, I have just exchanged messages of safety with local friends and coworkers in the Middle East. Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia,...
...tourism. Yet it is not just gambling problems that Macau faces, but other vices and problems that have resulted from it. Local churches and parachurch ministries are now working on...
Walking down the streets and alleyways of Taiwan, one can hardly miss the growing number of Indonesian, Vietnamese, and other Southeast Asian restaurants everywhere. The world has come to Taiwan! Migration is...
A Generational Moment in the Chinese Church Raised in Beijing in the 1960s and 1970s, I have taught at a number of theological schools in Hong Kong, the US, and mainland China over the past...
...I actually enjoy it. There’s something about riding the subway that makes me feel less like a visitor and more like a local. Although I can’t tell for sure who is local...