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Reflections on the Role of Migrant Labor

[…] on average in one month what he would earn in an entire year at home. In this way, one family member who has gone to the coast may be able to support an entire family back in China’s rural interior. More and more government officials view migrant labor as a normal consequence of economic […]

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The Light of the Bible

My Reflection on the Influence of the Bible on China

As is well known, the Bible has had an all-pervasive influence on Western countries, leaving an indelible mark on culture, art, architecture, music, literature, philosophy, ethics, festivals, social customs, and values. After the Bible arrived in China, it underwent a long and arduous journey from translation to publication, and eventually into the hands of […]

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Reverse Culture Shock

[…] the changes we have faced. He is patient with us in our irritation—and not surprised by that either. He invites us to express it to him. It may not always feel safe to speak about our uncertain steps back into Australian society to other Australians, but God is safe, every time. He made the […]

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Developing the Next Generation of Christian Leaders in China

[…] next ten years, given the church’s current growth rate, he answered, “Thousands.” A concerned look then crossed his face. A seminary-type, resident, academic, degree-granting, leader development program may meet a need on one level, but it will not produce the quality or quantity of leaders needed for the rapidly growing church in China. Many […]

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Short-Term Missions in Africa with Chinese Diaspora Mission

Today's Challenges

[…] church leaders will receive training in computer technology and business administration, and Chinese language study can be added to the curriculum. Community business development. Chinese Christian businessmen may start joint ventures with trained African church leaders. The indigenous people can find jobs in these workplaces and benefit from business profits. In five to seven […]

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Hope for HIV/AIDS in China

[…] the population of China. However, Asian countries, including China, are now home to some of the fastest growing AIDS epidemics in the world. UNAIDS projects that China may have ten million people infected by 2010 (or one percent of the population). Dr. Eberstadt of Harvard University’s Center for Population Studies predicts that five percent […]

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Singing from Underground to the World

Listening to the Music of Contemporary Chinese Christianity

[…] gave her as she worked in the fields or during the night when she could not sleep. Her songs are now published as the Canaan Hymns and number more than 1800. They have been widely welcomed in the Henan church and throughout the entire Chinese church body. They have become the most famous, local, […]

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Reading Tea Leaves from the 2021 National Religious Work Conference

What can we learn from the recent conference on religious work? A comparison with the 2018 conference helps tease out key points.

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Official Protestant Groups Plan Next Five Years of Sinicization

What Does the TSPM/CCC 5-Year Plan Tell Us about the Direction of Official Protestantism?

[…] The claims launched by Chinese believers in years past against the “compromised” nature of the official churches will be so much easier to justify and paradoxically it may strengthen the “witness” of believers worshipping apart from official churches. Third, if Protestant churches more and more “toe the Party line,” their distinctiveness to members of […]

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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works

[…] U.S., Chinese party-state governance operates much more on informal norms of trust and personal connections (guanxi in Chinese). This means that policies that are “on the books” may be bent, ignored or violated altogether by Protestant association leaders or pastors who have developed a relationship of trust with their RAB counterparts. This is good […]