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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 […]
The Pilgrim Principle
Remembering Andrew Walls
[…] view of the spread of Christianity over the past 2,000 years, along with his prescient observation of the church’s southward shift during the past century, introduced a new vocabulary for talking about the global church as “polycentric.” As K.C. Wendell Tan of the Biblical Graduate School of Theology in Singapore noted, this understanding “has […]
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.4 For those following the tightened restrictions on China’s Christians, these observations may not […]
Partnering with Churches in China
Toward a New Paradigm
[…] ways as the believers outside China know that their Chinese brothers and sisters are praying for them as well. Sharing Experiences Christians in China are launching into new areas such as education, marriage and family ministry, service to their communities, and reaching non-Chinese both domestically and beyond China’s borders. In many cases there are […]
A Chinese Christian Observes Ramadan
[…] people whom they seek to serve. Along with experiencing these very tangible physical, emotional and spiritual effects of his fast, Mark also took from his month-long sojourn new insights into how cross-cultural workers from China need to prepare for their own lifetime journeys of service. He pondered new questions about what qualifications are needed […]
China in Africa: Clues to the Future of “Belt and Road?”
[…] the host nation is in dealing with Chinese companies. Local companies in some sectors will need to significantly increase their productivity if they are going to compete with new Chinese entrants to the market. In addition to the need to strengthen the role of African managers, the Chinese-African economic partnership faces three particular “pain points,” […]
The Unseen Side of China’s Internet Explosion
[…] of the “Great Firewall of China,” (the elaborate security measures the government has put in place to regulate what is available online), the internet has created a new social space in which Chinese can organize around issues of common concern. Experienced users wanting to sound off on political issues stay one step ahead of […]
One Belt, One Road, One Mission?
[…] Christ’s redemptive purpose. “One Belt, One Road” could potentially be another one of those means. But drawing a straight line between OBOR and the success of a new mission movement from China may be overly optimistic, to say the least. In his South China Morning Post column, business writer Tom Holland questioned whether OBOR […]
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’) […]
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 […]