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Editorials
Connecting Leaders
[…] influences. Yet, taken to the extreme this isolationism not only keeps Christians in China from interacting in helpful ways with their counterparts outside China; it also can promote further divisions inside. As a result, leaders are deprived of opportunities to learn from one another and to share both external and internal resources. Barnabas’s experience […]
Editorials
A Church on the Move
[…] agricultural sector, the industrialization of the countryside, and more evangelists moving to the cities, this model has become less and less viable. From Farmhouse to Factory Floor New models are emerging that provide Christians who move to the cities with a means of support, a legitimate status within the city and a platform for […]
Editorials
Urban Migrants
Building the Infrastructure
[…] “Bird’s Nest” stadium that became the much heralded centerpiece of the 2008 Beijing Games was erected at unprecedented speed, along with dozens of other Olympic venues, several new subway lines and major beautification projects across the city. None of this would be possible were it not for hundreds of millions of migrant workers streaming […]
China’s Church at the Threshold
[…] evidence of what might lie ahead. Yet the government’s moves were in many ways inconclusive, leaving considerable “unfinished business” to be sorted out in 2017. While the new legislation on foreign NGOs in China is a fait accompli, its effect upon longstanding partnerships between Christians in China and those from outside who serve with […]
Book Reviews
Redeemed by Fire
The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
[…] has characterized much missionary writing. The figures that emerge are at once giants of faith, courage and vision, as well as flawed individuals whose egos at time get the best of them, or who end up abusing the privileges that come with leadership and lapsing into questionable, if not outright sinful, behavior. Bringing his […]
Editorials
Education: For Whom? And Why?
[…] Chinese education for the past 50 years. “Redness” was a recurring theme in China under Mao, who, in addition to favoring political correctness over educational excellence, also promoted education for the masses and opposed programs aimed at raising up an educated elite. Deng Xiaoping’s policies during the 1980s signaled a radical shift, as “key […]
Billy Graham’s Legacy of Partnering
[…] of missionary parents. As China’s process of reform and opening took shape under Deng Xiaoping, the Institute began convening evangelical leaders to consider how to respond to new opportunities for service in China. Momentum for collaboration built into the 1990s, when a new multi-organizational effort based out of the Institute gave birth to what […]
A Generation of One
[…] More than half did not expect to be happy in their marriages once they settled down. The challenge for China's church to embrace these youth in a new way is exacerbated by the oft-heard protestation from their parents that there is no time for church activities; their children just need to study more. Church […]
You Can’t Do That in China!
[…] beneath the surface. By limiting our vision of what is possible, our narratives keep us from recognizing when the church may be in fact doing something entirely new. This was brought home to me in the mid 2000s, when, during frequent trips to the mainland, I began to see believers doing things that I […]
Guanxi
Or, Do I Have to Give Them Something to Make Friends?
[…] typical American, I was offended with their constant asking. I thought they were just lazy and didn’t want to work in order to have the money to get what they wanted. I discovered later that asking for favors was a means of developing relationships. The first time my neighbor unexpectedly shared some of her […]