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Revisiting My Favorite Posts from 2022
A New Twist on the Top 10 List
[…] is the balance between personal accounts and analysis of broader context. This piece brought both elements together and gave me a template for reading and understanding the news coming out of China for the rest of 2022. Getting to Know China’s Migrant Workers by Reggie Reimer. March 9, 2022. I might be cheating a […]
Opening the Eyes of My Heart
[…] I blurted out “yes.” We then chatted about other unimportant things, and then the meeting was over. The president told me to go back and wait for news. After I went home, I felt uneasy. I felt that although I was determined to become a Christian, I had not yet been baptized. If I […]
Saving Grandmother’s Face and Other Tales from Christian Teachers in China
A Book Review
[…] he first knocked on their door for a cup of sugar. Samara Sanchez shared about receiving a letter from a long-ago student. It contained not only the news of a classmate’s death but an invitation to the funeral. Quite suddenly she was drawn into an intimate family experience. Many of her observations and conclusions […]
Are You in Conflict?
[…] in the heart conflict remaining. Learning that there are ways to address conflict that has already started in the heart but not yet exploded has been good news indeed. Note: This blog post contains content from Jolene’s yet to be published book: Changing Normal: A New Approach to Conflict, Face Issues, and Reconciling Relationships. Chung-Ying […]
Xiamen!
Unfortunately, the Taiwan Strait has been in the news a lot lately. As the body of water that separates mainland China from Taiwan, it quickly becomes the flashpoint when tensions rise between the two sides or between the People’s Republic of China and the United States. When leaders from Taiwan meet with high level […]
The Chinese Church Does Missions (1) Within China
ChinaSource Summer School Session 4
In the last session of ChinaSource Summer School, we met some of the missionaries who traveled from the West to bring the good news to the people of China. The Chinese people quickly took an active part in spreading the gospel throughout the country and have even begun to go out to other countries. […]
Reconciling a Church Split
A pastor and an elder of a local church in China had not spoken to each other for four months. My heart ached when I heard this news. In John 13:34–35 Jesus said to his followers, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, […]
Praying for Urban Red-Light Outreach
Exploitation and Restoration
[…] of a huge phenomenon. Girls and women are not educated and protected. They are undervalued and neglected. They have never had a chance to hear the good news of Jesus, or to have a safe place to restart their lives. And we are not talking about hundreds or thousands of them, but millions. How, […]
China in the Mirror: Challenges and Realities
Reflections on China, Part 1: The Context in 2024
[…] textured understanding of Chinese people and Chinese culture. Beware of receiving your information about China only from Western sources. Be diligent to read and listen to Chinese news sources about itself. Economics The eventual implosion of China’s economy has been an annual prediction among conservatives since the 1990s. And yet, the mixed socialist market […]
Peoples of China
Theology Or Theologies?
[…] other people’s cultures that blind them to truth, and never our own.) One of the great blessings of cross-cultural ministry is that it has a way of breaking us out of our provincial approaches to theology. As I reflect on my own pilgrimage, I recall how the group-orientation of my Asian friends challenged my […]