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Enduring Friendship
Among American visitors to China in the 1990s and 2000s, it was fashionable to wear a friendship pin displaying the respective flags of the two countries as a symbol of the positive relations between China and the US. The friendship narrative promoted by many Christian visitors to China was supported by prevailing national narratives […]
Editorials
China by the Numbers
[…] still hard to come by. Nonetheless, this church growth has already placed China squarely on the map when it comes to the global Christian population. As China moves steadily toward becoming the nation with the largest number of Christians, its church will increasingly be in a position to leave a lasting mark on Christianity worldwide.
Editorials
Journeying Together
[…] borrow a common Chinese idiom, is it a case of “same bed, different dreams,” working together yet having different expectations? These questions led to the formation in 2015 of the China Gospel Research Alliance (CGRA), a consortium of four organizations in Hong Kong, all with a long history of China involvement. The CGRA members […]
Beyond the Standard Narrative
[…] more likely to draw official attention. The size and perceived influence of unregistered groups is another factor. After several high-profile congregations were shut down in the late 2010s, other groups began proactively moving to a decentralized church model, a transition that was hastened by pandemic restrictions beginning in 2020. Finally, the church’s historical relationship […]
From Here to There
The Straight-Line Fallacy
[…] not only friendly to the West, but also more similar politically and culturally. Former Los Angeles Times Beijing Bureau Chief James Mann dissected this narrative in his 2007 book, The China Fantasy (New York: Viking). As his book title suggests, Mann viewed the engagement myth as fundamentally flawed in its straight-line view of the […]
Will History Repeat Itself?
[…] scrupulously avoid politically sensitive topics in conversations with officials, and to ensure that communications with supporters at home has no political overtones, the presence of a significant number of foreign Christians engaging Chinese at all levels of society is itself a political statement. For the most part this engagement has happened with the government’s […]
Editorials
Communities of Hope
<p>Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared in "Community Transformation" (CS Quarterly, 2005 Summer).</p>
Toward a Flourishing Society
[…] Christ while in university and became an early member of Shouwang Church. Both he and his wife were detained during the church’s “outdoor worship,” which began in 2009. During their detention, their first daughter, who had been left in the care of relatives, was tragically killed when she fell from an upper story window. […]
“Passive” Church Planting in China
<p>The China Partnership website recently carried the story of an urban pastor who planted 16 churches in a major Chinese city. The article profiles the transformation in this pastor’s thinking concerning the nature and purpose of the church.</p>
End of an Era?
[…] years. How believers outside China choose to respond in this transition will determine in part the nature of these stories. A few years ago I explored a number of possible responses to this new season in the e-book 7 Trends Impacting Foreign Christians in China. The situation has continued to evolve in the years since, but […]