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Jesus: The Path to Human Flourishing

A Book Review

Jesus: The Path to Human Flourishing (The Gospel for the Cultural Chinese) by I’Ching Thomas. Graceworks Private Limited, 2018, 126 pages. Paperback. ISBN: 978-981-11-5718-9. Available on Amazon and from Graceworks. Augustine stated that “All truth is God’s truth,” and in I’Ching Thomas’s book, Jesus: The Path to Human Flourishing, the author takes this to […]

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Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming

[…] the Japanese invasion in the 1930s to protect their congregations and lost their lives as a result.  Swells is right, of course, that a focus on the numbers of converts was always misplaced; the focus should always be on the faithfulness and integrity of those who do convert, not on whether they are numerous […]

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Seeing with New Eyes

Why Worldview Matters in Understanding China

In conversations about China—whether in ministry, education, or academic settings—one word quietly carries great weight: worldview. And yet, for many of us engaged in cross-cultural learning or ministry, it remains a category we acknowledge without fully exploring.

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The Shaping of Christianity in China Today

A Book Review

Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China (Studies in Chinese Christianity) by Li Ma and Jin Li. Pickwick Publications, 2017, 226 pages. Paperback, ISBN-10: 153263460; ISBN-13: 978-1532634604; $27 at Amazon.  The following two book reviews give Eastern and Western perspectives on a recent publication that looks at the external […]

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Book Review: Schism

Seventh-Day Adventism in Post-Denominational China

[…] Pond. The study examines a recent case in which the divided Adventists were able to cooperate in a legal case which was ultimately decided against them in 2015. They appealed to the provincial court in 2016, but they were denied and the cooperation between the factions dissipated. The study displays the academic rigor and […]

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A New China and a New Catholic Church

At this crossroads, perhaps Wu Jingxiong points the way forward… In an era when conflict threatens to dehumanize us all, Wu Jingxiong’s Christian humanism remains to this day a beacon of hope.

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Passing the Faith to the Next Generation

Reaching American-Born/Second-Generation Chinese

Sam George in “Chinese Christians of Chicagoland: The Experience of One American City” states, “One of the surprising finds was a cluster of nearly 10,000 Chinese students in the Urbana-Champaign region without any Chinese church in the university town.” George continues by exhorting the American Chinese church to reach out to the generation of […]

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Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned

[…] you can come to China and impress everyone by saying you caught a fish THIS BIG. “Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned” was originally published at small town laowai on May 8, 2015. Header image courtesy of Traffic (are you ready?) by Marianna, on Flickr Text images courtesy of small town laowai

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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?

[…] plans like any other Communist Party organization? What is new about this five-year plan? In this analysis, I compared the 2023–2027 plan4 with the previous plan5 for 2018–2022 to see what’s new and what is the same. The most important conclusion is that the TSPM/CCC now lays far greater emphasis on political loyalty to […]