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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, […]
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.”6 Daniel Bays in his New History of Christianity in China echoes this sentiment, noting there is little evidence that many Han Chinese believed.7 Richard Cook’s Darkest Before the Dawn likewise asserts […]
A Look at China’s Registered Church
From the 2020 Autumn Issue of CSQ
[…] control of the Communist Party (although it did serve this purpose), but was seen by its leaders as the only way forward for the church in the new era. With the outbreak of the Korean conflict, the stated desire to see a Chinese church independent of missionary control took on a decidedly political dimension. […]
Variations on a Theme
[…] In the eyes of some observers, China’s standalone urban churches represent the seeds of civil society. A hunger for leadership training from the West hints that a new kind of Christian leader is being formed in China. Our narratives envision a linear relationship between our China involvement and the church’s—and the nation’s—trajectory toward progress. […]
Some Additions to the Summer Bookshelf
The latest issue of The China Journal is out and features a host of reviews of new books that should be of interest to those concerned with developments in China. Here is a sampling of some of the latest scholarship touching on current issues affecting Chinese society and culture. Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese […]
Editorials
Of Starfish and Spiders
[…] cut off, with the starfish, which has the remarkable ability to reproduce itself through injury. If one of its legs is severed the starfish grows back a new leg, and the severed leg has the potential to create a new starfish. The application to organizations and social networks is pretty straightforward. In today’s highly […]
Editorials
Haigui – Writing the Next Chapter
[…] including the believing returnees themselves who are providing leadership in China’s emerging urban churches while struggling to live out an authentic faith in an often hostile environment, new networks and resources are being developed both for returnees and those who seek to serve them. Just as China’s long history is filled with accounts of […]
From Entrepreneur to Catalyst
[…] in China ministry. After Joshua had been chosen to take Israel into the Promised Land, Moses’s job description changed. No longer called to lead the charge, his new assignment was to “encourage and strengthen Joshua” (Deuteronomy 3:28). As willing catalysts, this generation of leaders can encourage and strengthen a new generation of indigenous ministry […]
One-in-a-Thousand Millionaires
An Example for China’s Christians?
[…] the recent Chinese Church Voices post on the prosperity gospel in China, you need to. Here’s why: Meteoric economic growth has given rise to a class of new millionaires that has become the standard of success across China. China Daily estimates one in every one thousand Chinese is a multi-millionaire. Included among these are […]
Going Glocal in the Age of COVID-19
[…] learn about mission strategies in China they could have never envisioned, much less dreamed possible in China’s repressive political environment. Asian participants listened with empathy as their new friends in America related the loss and disorientation they were experiencing with the sudden onslaught of COVID-19. All sensed the Lord’s presence as they humbled themselves […]