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A Journey of Captivation and Identity
[…] I was a high school math teacher and Sandy felt called to leave her job at Stanford University to be a full-time mother, so we moved from California to a much more affordable city, Lubbock, TX, just before our adoption. The agency director wisely told us that we would need to be intentional about […]
From Andrew Gih to Hudson
Documenting a Legacy of Adoption and Faith
[…] join the three daughters we had already adopted. Afterwards, a man came up to me and said he was a director who had recently moved to Southern California from Beijing to work for an organization called Education & Culture Foundation (now known as ECF International). Among the materials ECF produces are documentaries that feature […]
A Better and Broader Understanding of China
[…] edge” as it has reflected the realities of this fast-changing country. We now have a total of four children adopted from China, live in an area of California that is 75% Chinese, have visited China ten times, and have served 17 years in leadership with international student ministry. Our lives have been transformed by […]
John Song—A Fruitful Returnee
A Reader Responds to the Autumn CSQ
[…] had been taken from his family during the Cultural Revolution, then lost, then found again. One of his daughters published extracts from his diary and notes in 2012.1 Song arrived in the US to study at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1920 and experienced financial hardship and loneliness as many international students do. His diary […]
Chinese Education: From Hallowed to Hollow
For the fourth straight year in row, the number of college hopefuls taking the national university entrance exam, or gaokao, has dropped. Analysts trace the decline to a corresponding drop in the number of children born at the beginning of the last decade due to China's one-child policy. However, the decrease also suggests two realities […]
What Triggers Persecution of Christians in China?
According to China Aid Association's 2013 Persecution Report, a total of 7,424 Christians were persecuted in China last year. This is not an insignificant number; 7,424 believers facing persecution is 7,424 too many. However, it is worth looking at this number a bit closer in order to put it into perspective.
Cults in China
Last year members of the Almighty God sect savagely attacked a customer in a McDonald’s in northeast China after she refused to give them her cell phone number. Formerly known as Eastern Lightning, the Almighty God sect has emerged as one of the most active cults in China.
Islam has the largest number of under-30 believers in China?
Christian Today has posted an article with this headline: “Islam is the most popular religion for under-30s in China." The lead says: Islam has the largest number of young believers in China, new research has found, despite the growth of Christianity in the country and an atheist government. The China Religion Survey 2015, released […]
When Your Phone Becomes a Substitute for True Relationships
[…] said, “I would rather you killed me, too!” He responded, “If they hadn’t seized my knife, I would have killed even you.” This boy used his mobile phone to read hundreds upon hundreds of Wuxia (martial arts and chivalry) novels, becoming intimately connected to these internet stories, yet hardening his heart and distancing himself […]