My Problem with Progress
...the provincial commerce department, my recent health check (passport number!), and my registration receipt from the local police branch (chopped) with my passport number and visa type, number and dates....
...the provincial commerce department, my recent health check (passport number!), and my registration receipt from the local police branch (chopped) with my passport number and visa type, number and dates....
...an early and unwilling removal from the community at the behest of local security officials. Despite these challenges, this locally-conditioned participation is certainly the ideal to be aimed for, a...
...competing to see who can build the best building, the focus has shifted to the spiritual construction of believers. Training programs have increased, the number of people studying theology (but...
...in the local churches can be destructive. In the city where I live the primary local network of unregistered churches split over just these issues in the early 2000s. Following...
...spread of similar opinion pieces, perhaps there are a considerable number of Chinese women who had the misfortune to grow up in broken homes, who carry around resentment at the...
...education, but a church that has opened a church school is probably “one in a million.” Currently, you can count on one hand the number of schools opened by churches...
...the limited availability and distribution of the Bible is that it does not have an ISBN number. Without an ISBN number a book cannot be published or distributed in China....
By at least some calculations, the size of China’s economy exceeded that of the United States this month, putting China in first place. Setting aside the fine points of those...
This series of blog entries refers primarily to the question of expatriate Christians attending Chinese services at registered—or at least publicly "open"—local churches. It is assumed that in most cases,...
...their number. Much of this is owed to a robust faith foundation among the indigenous church with many faith communities able to trace their Christian roots back several generations to...
...Xu Guangqi (1562-1633), who later became the Grand Secretary to the emperor. He then reviews the following four centuries, both the church’s momentous accomplishments, such as the successes of Ricci...
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