China’s Marginalized Internal Migrants
...A spiritual revival and transformation has already been taking place inside this vast country. Christianity is a major cultural development in China today. The newest estimate of the number of...
...A spiritual revival and transformation has already been taking place inside this vast country. Christianity is a major cultural development in China today. The newest estimate of the number of...
Having been away for some years, I tried to settle down again in Beijing. I took with me my Malaysian-born wife, who speaks Chinese with a different accent, and tried...
...tucked away in a pocket within the city and the structures of economics had forced the poorest into the lowest lying areas of the district. Migrants sat and watched as...
...on, with family migration increasing in scale, most public schools continued to keep migrant children out of their facilities. Gradually, the “hut schools” grew in size and in number, then...
...or working in the homes of China’s growing middle class. In the Pearl River and Yangtze delta regions tens of millions of young migrants labor on the world’s factory floors,...
...do whatever they want for themselves, regardless of right and wrong.” (p.54) After attending an Amway sales rally, the eager salesman tells him: “We want to live. Right now we...
...childbirth right up to the present time (Rom. 8:19-22). Other passages describe how this earth will be destroyed in the day of judgment only to be replaced by a new...
...that if we are right as to our inward being, we shall certainly do right as to our outward actions. The essential thing, therefore, is character; and doing is valuable...
...two cloaks and a brother has none, we are to give one away “that there may be equality.” To tell the truth, it sounds a bit too socialist for my...
...a church in a place which previously had no functional body. A Chinese national who heard this story responded: “Why does one foreigner believe that he has the right to...
...urban church. Short-term seminars and retreats are useful for church members who should in turn make sure the right pastors can receive either two or four-year advanced degrees in theology....
...with advancements such as the internet, cheap phone calls, high speed trains, higher education and overall openness to foreigners, non-nationals can live comfortably in any of the 500 cities in...