Religion in China—By the Numbers
...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)....
...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)....
...learn right from wrong? Is God in dreams? Do you play a sport? What do you do on Sundays? All this from people who had hardly spoken in class! One...
...Cross-culturally If You Sell and I Give Away—Can We Still Be Friends? (April 13, 2018, ChinaSource Blog) Sell, sort, ship, give away, or leave by the curb? What do we do with...
...take away my [lustful] desires!” On the one hand, this expresses the Christian’s hope for victory. But on the other hand, this kind of prayer reveals that he believes he...
Sell, sort, ship, give away, or leave by the curb? What do we do with our stuff when it is time to move? I have spent over twenty years going...
...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...
...and faith. We cannot lack even one of these three elements—“right to speak,” “personnel rights,” and “right to property.” We must insist on them. The second aspect to consider is...
...in fact, a danger that the trade war could end prematurely. The right outcome is more important than a fast outcome. Six signs China wants to avoid a trade war (March...
...Chinese Christians), and a growing number of Christians who do not reject certain charismatic practices.” (p. 10) This is a major, and very significant, thesis. Pentecostals include, the True Jesus...
...“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...
...groups in China are well-known. Such peoples have shamans and ritual practices to drive away demons. Most of these groups are in China’s south and southwest regions. The larger groups...
...also uses a number of images to highlight the theme, such as the body of Christ and clothing metaphors. These and related phrases and metaphors are found hundreds of times...