The Family in China
...seismic waves of change taking place. While mentally we still hold onto outdated picture postcards of bicycles, walled cities and blue-suited workers, one can only stare in disbelief at the...
...seismic waves of change taking place. While mentally we still hold onto outdated picture postcards of bicycles, walled cities and blue-suited workers, one can only stare in disbelief at the...
...for migrants. “They also need to keep in contact with friends and family members to help combat loneliness while working away from home.”[5] Migrants, as “marginalized people” whose mental anguish...
Last week, I found myself sloshing through sewer-infested water up to the thighs after a deluge of rain hit a migrant community I was visiting in Shanghai. The community was...
...Reviewed by Brad Burgess As I draft this review, I sit in the center of Beijing the day before the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympics. Getting caught up in...
...when I saw the title of Rob Gifford’s book, China Road, I instinctively knew that this was a book that I was going to like. When I finished it, I...
...What does the Chinese church actually need? Do we need a good model? Good methods? Structure? What we really need are healthy leaders!” Image credit: 大钟塔(Bell Tower) by Patrick He, on...
...givers. What they have received, they also have a responsibility to pass on to others. They need to determine how they, as “givers,” should treat other churches in view of...
...novelty of a Westerner speaking Chinese would likely overpower whatever message I presented. If I were poorly received, how would those I have discipled over the years react? If I...
...of burying that one talent. Those who never take risks do not need faith. Those who do not need faith do not need God, nor want to rely on God....
...is most polluted typically contain 16 or 17 cities in China. I experienced that one morning in March 2002 when I left my windowless office in the Tsinghua University School...
...do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate, I do; what a wretched man I am, who will...
...tempting to bypass the essentials in the name of our “good kingdom efforts.” Having been asked to review R. Scott Rodin’s book, Stewards in the Kingdom, I must admit I...