The Catholic Experience in China
...of Church Bells in China. After my talk a sister from Shanxi Province gave me a handwritten note with names and phone numbers. “The next time you go to China,...
...of Church Bells in China. After my talk a sister from Shanxi Province gave me a handwritten note with names and phone numbers. “The next time you go to China,...
...you are ready for marriage. 7. Christians see the number seven as a number of completion, a completion that is based on God's foundation ["Qixi" refers to "seventh evening of...
...discourse is humming away at high speed. China’s Insecure Nationalism: The Roots of Xi Jinping’s Foreign Policy (August 28, 2017, IAPS Dialogue) At the root of the present Doklam crisis is China’s...
...who have a burden to join a senior center ministry team (as distinct from groups going to senior centers to visit specific elders): Number one, the team’s unity of spirit...
...China is in transition. And not in a good way. The partially institutionalised political norms of China’s reform era are buckling. Beijing is steadily sliding away from collective authoritarian rule by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) elite...
...missionaries outside the country, compared with virtually none a decade ago, according to churches and academics. Church leaders hope to increase their number to 20,000 by the end of the...
While some feel that the Western church should do little to support the Chinese missionary sending movement outside of prayer,[1][2] a number of Chinese missionaries welcome foreign involvement, feeling hampered, for...
...China’s relentless economic expansion and an urban migration unprecedented in human history. I’ve lost count of the number of times in the past two decades—as we have witnessed Christians in...
...occurs, a very small number of Christians will make inappropriate comments. When disaster strikes, Christians must not speak inappropriately. Here are some common inappropriate comments: "These people met disaster because they...
...the Bohai Sea, is particularly sensitive this year, with the Communist Party’s national congress around the corner and coming just weeks after a Politburo member was taken away for investigation....
...traffic rules, then getting hit and killed serves you right! And the indifference of passersby is encapsulated in the following terrible phrase: They might be bumping porcelain, serves them right!...
...to be entered to win a free copy of my book Survival Chinese Lessons. We will be giving away ten free books. Jean-Baptiste Du Halde [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons...