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One Virus, Two Cities
When the coronavirus began its rapid global spread earlier this year, New York City quickly emerged as a new epicenter of the virus. Case counts spiked, reaching new highs on a daily basis as hospitals reeled under the sudden demand for acute care. Well over 20,000 lives would be lost before the outbreak was […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
In 2023, the Chinese government issued new regulations on the registration of religious activity sites—the first update of these rules in over 15 years. What do they actually mean? How different are they from the earlier ones? What do they tell us about the church-state relationship in China today? What can we learn from […]
Encouragement for Those Contemplating Post-Virus Divorce
[…] fully booked every day with divorce appointments. People are not at all surprised at this, rather they can empathize—the trials of the epidemic are not just the virus, but also trials in marriage. The Hua Shuang Daily reports that on March 5, Xi’an Beilin District Marriage Registry had 14 divorce bookings, which reached the […]
An Official Code of Conduct for China’s Pastors
[…] more vigilant in recognizing and preventing the capability of foreign infiltration as well as to stand on guard against cults, heresies, and extremism. In addition, the document promotes mutual respect and harmony between different religions as well as inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchanges. It also demands that staff conform to churches' rules and regulations […]
Peoples of China
Finding the People in the People’s Republic
There are numerous challenges that could derail China's march to super-power status including a collapse of the banking system, regional disintegration, environmental disaster, and military miscalculations. However, perhaps the most likely factor to prevent China's rise will be the one the government can least do anything about: demography. China, as always, has too many people; now, however, it is also lacking in females, youth, and sooner rather than later, a workforce to support its retired population.
A Remembrance of Things Past
[…] of 755-63). What we do know is that this was not why the church disappeared in early medieval China. When the Uighur Empire began to crumble in Central Asia in the early 840s, the Syriac Christians, who were well placed in both the Uighur Empire and the Abbasid Islamic Caliphate as translators and cultural […]
Book Reviews
Understanding the Chinese Church
[…] fascinating yet scholarly story. Basically chronological in the telling, Lambert weaves four distinct threads throughout his story. One thread is the development of religious policy by the central government that sought to control the remnants of the Chinese church following the Cultural Revolution. Using charts and descriptions, even I was able to follow the […]
In the Fire, Yet Unburned: A Journey of Faith in Adversity
[…] source of our vitality, enduring the cycle of “wildfire cannot consume it, for the spring wind brings it back to life” (野火烧不尽、春风吹又生).12 A Wild Grass in the Central Plains I am that wild grass, born in the Central Plains (Zhongyuan 中原) of China during the early years of the Cultural Revolution. My parents came […]
Peoples of China
Chinese Cults, Sects, and Heresies
[…] with the burning of their center where Koresh and 75 others were found dead after the fire. There are conflicting reports on the dates. Peregrine de Vigo, MA, lived in central China for nine years and is a student of philosophy, sinology, and several other “-ologies.” Image Credit: Ancient villages of Anhui by Jonathan, on Flickr (modified)
Why Reaching 2nd Generation Chinese Americans Is Crucial but Difficult
[…] took roughly three years to complete and it revolved around reaching second generation Chinese Americans for Christ. It was at a meeting with various Chinese pastors in Central Florida that the project began. I learned that there was a great concern for the second and following generations of Chinese Americans, because so many were […]