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Beyond the Standard Narrative
[…] authorities are actively hunting for the remaining unregistered congregations that continue to operate, and those reaching out to share their faith risk fines, detainment, or other punishments. New laws have banned religion from all but authorized Christian websites and licensed clergy.1 For those following the tightened restrictions on China’s Christians, these observations may not […]
Policy, Implementation, and Shifting Official Perceptions of the Church in China
[…] church in Chinese society. In this very fluid environment, the international Christian community has an opportunity to be proactive in supporting Christians who are carving out a new space for the church in Chinese society and in encouraging government officials to take risks in not merely allowing but also sanctioning a new degree of […]
Beyond “Two Camps”: The Complex Relationship between Official and Unregistered Church in China
[…] come significant changes in the TSPM's role, in China's religious policy, and in the unregistered church community, all of which have brought, and continue to bring, a new level of complexity to the relationship between China's official and unregistered church streams. These developments have resulted in a tense yet synergistic relationship between these two […]
Editorials
Chinas Youth in Perspective
[…] of China by imperialist powers following World War I. In the wake of the Second World War, revolutionaries in the 1940s joined Mao in ushering in the new China. Later the “lost generation” of the Cultural Revolution again cast its lot with Mao, only to be discarded in the countryside following a period of […]
Consumerism and the Church in China
[…] wholesale and even endorsing the culture’s emphasis on material acquisition, the church will be challenged to demonstrate what it means to be stewards in God’s kingdom. China’s new generation of urban consumers, overwhelmed by a never-ending onslaught of commercial advertising and perplexing financial decisions, would likely welcome sound stewardship teaching were the church to […]
An Effective Bridge
[…] China. How to learn alongside China’s future theologians as they write dissertations in China or abroad, assume faculty position in official or unofficial theological training institutions, launch new online journals, engage with fellow academics on Chinese university campuses, and publish articles for a global audience? How to encourage a new generation of pastors whose […]
Editorials
Changing Culture
[…] order to secure their futures. Meanwhile globalization and the rapid growth of the internet have created numerous opportunities for cultural interflow, resulting in the creation of a new hybrid vocabulary as foreign ideas are adopted into Chinese. These along with many other cultural changes too numerous to list here suggest that China’s reform and […]
A Meeting of Minds
20 Years of Publishing ChinaSource
[…] professor Dr. Mel Lorentzen, who had served as associate director of The Billy Graham Center, facilitated the gathering. Mel steered the conversation toward the need for a new English-language journal to examine China’s growing global role from a Christian perspective, and the idea for the Journal was born. Julia Grosser, who was serving at […]
3 Questions: The 2018 World Watch List
[…] is a second point which needs to be kept in mind: the reporting period of the WWL 2018 ends at 31 October 2017, meaning that the already announced new regulations on religion were already known and had certain consequences, as most observers expect a more complicated situation. However, those rules will be implemented from 1 […]
The Mountains Are Shorter, Part 1
[…] as automobiles or housing. Given these incentives, they have worked hard to maintain their privileged positions. Now, as one commentator put it, “Times are a-changing. In this new era of ‘centralism, Xi style,’ provinces need to do the center’s bidding of ensuring economic security. In other words, Beijing wants to reset the 不听话 (‘intransigent’) […]