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East-West Exchange Promotes Nonprofit Development in China
[…] States. Hosted by the Maclellan Foundation, the delegation toured organizations serving a wide range of constituencies, including persons with disabilities, the elderly, urban youth, prison inmates, and new immigrants. Their itinerary also included meetings with business and education leaders and the media. Viewing the work of one agency in Atlanta, the head of the […]
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 […]
Defying Western Expectations
[…] and every indication is that this history—which is about far more than numerical growth—has not yet run its course. China’s reforming churches are not drowning in the new tide but rising on it. They are embracing the opportunities they see in the new challenges they face and finding creative ways to meet the needs […]
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 […]
Mao’s Black Box: Resilience and Religious Revival in Wenzhou
A Book Review
Xiaoxuan Wang, Maoism and Grassroots Religion: The Communist Revolution and the Reinvention of Religious Life in China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Available on Amazon. After touring China in the early 1980s, Christian radio personality Carl Lawrence wrote about the Christians he met during his travels. His book, titled The Church in China: How It Survives […]
Editorials
Facing Transitions
Life transitions—whether coming to China for the first time, leaving after a lifetime of ministry, moving to a new city or taking on a new assignment—can be a gateway to discovery or the death of a dream. Often they are both. In this issue we take a 360-degree look at transitions, viewing them through […]
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’) […]
The Urban Paradox: Together, Alone
[…] face with the human reality underlying the most massive migration in the history of the world. On a Saturday morning on the edge of town where another new suburb is taking shape, bleary eyed peasants peeked out from their tarpaulin-covered home under a railway bridge. Across the street cars maneuvered into the parking lot […]
3 Questions: Migration and Public Theology in China
[…] this referring to? The title of the book The Chinese Exodus alludes to how ancient Israelites broke free from Pharaoh’s old regime, only to find themselves in new forms of spiritual slavery. Rural migrants in China now have residential mobility to freely move around and live in the cities, but in their freer life […]
Beyond the Crosses
Wealth, Stewardship and the Wenzhou Church
[…] of one observer, because of the favorable social and political conditions, Competition to build churches had almost become the order of the day. As soon as a new church was built, it was torn down and rebuilt again! Before the new building was even filled with people, they began to build an even bigger […]