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Book Reviews
Redeemed by Fire
The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
Lian Xi, Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010. Available on Amazon. Reviewed by Brent Fulton Years ago a Western teacher was having a conversation with one of her students in China about their respective cultures. “You know what the difference is between you […]
Who’s at the Table?
[…] discerning what God has put before them to do and how he has uniquely gifted them to serve. Making this shift requires slowing down. It requires a new mindset. It is humbling—particularly if one’s work has been seen as successful—to recognize that this assistance may not be appropriate in the long term, and that […]
Enduring Friendship
[…] 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 on both sides of the ocean. Within this larger shared political narrative, foreign Christians […]
The Challenge of Contextualization
Another Perspective
[…] a manner that impacts the lives of those around them. For the past decade believers in China have been on the cutting edge as they have pioneered new expressions of their faith in an atmosphere of expanding social openness. Christian publishing, a vibrant online presence, public worship in newly available urban spaces, experiments in […]
3 Questions: Honor, Shame, and the Gospel
[…] influenced in part by Western values. We have moved away from colonialism in our methods but not our theology. As a catalyst we want to be seeding new teams and collaborations to develop new ministry resources, ways of presenting the gospel, and training for cross-cultural ministry. We’re looking for new case histories, people writing […]
Denominationalism in China: Pre or Post?
[…] from the unique provision and leading of God to a particular denomination in her history. Because of this, older traditional churches in China are often critical of new, younger, urban churches in their constitutionalization processes to establish denominations. It is very easy to import a denominational book of governance or church constitution or doctrinal […]
More than Conquerors
[…] Christians in the registered church are being pushed toward an extreme form of nationalism with the Sinicization campaign and Patriotic Education Law, which officially took effect on New Year’s Day 2024. This law explicitly states, “The state encourages and supports religious groups, religious schools, and places of religious activities to carry out patriotic education, […]
China by the Lists
[…] Christmas carol (which, after the eighth or ninth verse has been known to test the sanity of even the soundest of souls). On the twelfth day of New Year, the Party gave to me: Twelve Socialist Values Eleven Most Active Cults Ten-Year Visas Nine-Dash Line Eight Shames and Honors Seven Percent Growth Rate Six […]
Collective Misunderstanding
[…] never to have ceased to be primarily the faith of a foreign community…Nestorianism seems to have depended chiefly upon foreign leadership and support.”7 Daniel Bays in his New History of Christianity in China echoes this sentiment, noting there is little evidence that many Han Chinese believed.8 Richard Cook’s Darkest Before the Dawn likewise asserts […]
Lead Article
Welcome to the City
[…] would experience total unity. The inclusion of the word “total” implies that there can be partial unity. In fact there are different expressions of unity in the New Testament. Ephesians 4:3-5a is an expression of the unity of family. When each of us comes to Christ we become children of God, which makes us […]