Advance and Retreat
...do business with them. For Han missionaries, business provides an identity and a good opportunity to build relationships with local people, assuming you are indeed doing business there and doing...
...do business with them. For Han missionaries, business provides an identity and a good opportunity to build relationships with local people, assuming you are indeed doing business there and doing...
...“Your Mandarin is really good.” Even though I was far from fluent, my musical ear had given me the advantage of reproducing accurate pronunciation—to the point where often on phone...
...to include discussions of large swaths of Chinese Christianity that are not formally P/C, including the Local Church, Roman Catholic charismatics, and the huge networks in Henan. The True Jesus...
...to Rise at Beijing Universities (March 23, 2018, The Beijinger) The number of HIV transmissions at Beijing universities continue to rise at an alarming over the past year, say local health authorities....
...the local context and the various issues involved in developing an explicitly Chinese theology that addresses more completely that local ministry context. Whether you are learning about China from afar,...
...gifts, and leading teams, a church needs to reach a certain size and number of people. This is basic knowledge and consensus. For the church to go underground, meet separately,...
...return home, Beijing is expanding its political operations abroad. Podcast: China-Africa Relations in the Xi Jinping Era (April 9, 2018, China File) Eisenman is among a growing number of scholars...
...Protestant believers was 23 million, as last as 2012. Neither that number nor the current number of 38 million include Protestant believers who are part of unregistered congregations (house churches)....
...Studies of Religion in Chinese Societies, as well as published in public media such as Caijing, Duan, and Mingpao. Notes ^ [Abraham Kuyper, Lectures on Calvinism (Grand Rapids: WM. B....
...how Xi’s grand vision is impacting countries along the Belt and Road. Raising some “existential questions” at the close of the podcast, Rolland hints at where the Belt and Road...
...Forum) The local discontent is quite important, but on the other hand, most of the countries in the Belt and Road are weak democracies or authoritarian countries, so the local...
...to turn away from their increasingly self-centered ways and perhaps phone home once in a while”![2] The literature of the fifteenth to early twentieth century, covered in the next hundred...