A Chinese Christian Funeral for My Grandmother
...sister, Sister Sun, came from a poor family; she didn’t even have a decent mobile phone. But she came almost every day when grandmother was in the hospital. One day...
...sister, Sister Sun, came from a poor family; she didn’t even have a decent mobile phone. But she came almost every day when grandmother was in the hospital. One day...
...on each floor. However, one might have to try fifty times in a row to get an outside line! Also, phone service was so poor that it was hard to...
...point, a time when the myths that China and the world had adopted about the politics and economics of the Peoples Republic began to wash away, leaving blunt facts about...
...Jeremiah, feeling overwhelmed and defeated, expressed his desire to go home and cried to his guardian, “Why am I here? I’m a failure, a coward who ran away from oppression,...
...church just as the little old ladies in that row were ushered away from their seats. We were horrified, but Chinese notions of hospitality dictated that the foreign guests be...
...who was taken away by authorities during a live television interview with VOA nearly two weeks ago. From laboratory in far west, China's surveillance state spreads quietly (August 14, 2018, Reuters) In...
...was being ushered to the front row of the church just as the little old ladies in that row were ushered away from their seats. We were horrified, but Chinese...
...Journalists (March 3, 2020, NPR) NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Steven Butler of the Committee to Protect Journalists about the White House capping the number of Chinese nationals allowed to work in...
...showed that the number of new births in 2021 was the lowest in decades in several provinces. A Visit to Shaoshan and What I’ll Not Forget (July 25, 2022, ChinaSource Blog) But...
...to take up more of his time. I tried to explain this calmly, but after hanging up the phone, a deep sense of grievance rose up inside me. I Treated...
...look more like mid- easterners—and they’re living right on the street! There’s a bed, a kitchen table, a cook stove—all right outside. What is this? These are Hui Muslims, a...
...right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin." This is the ministry approach of our church, and the spiritual guideline to which I must...