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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 plan1 with the previous plan2 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 […]
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A Look Back to Look Forward
A Decade of ChinaSource
[…] an update on China’s growing urban church that is taking a variety of forms. In addition, we introduce you to the new ChinaSource website and recommend the 2010 Prayer Calendar. Throughout the years, ChinaSource has provided a variety of resources designed to aid and enhance your China service. As one of those resources, the […]
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Hope for HIV/AIDS in China
[…] 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 of China’s people will be infected in […]
The 2023 Regulations for Religious Activity Site Registration
What the Party Doesn’t Want You to Know
[…] from the last question and work backward, from the larger context to the issue of religions. Since Xi Jinping was selected to be China’s top leader in 2012, the People’s Republic of China has entered the End of Era, as a recent book by scholar Carl Minzner put it.5 Students of Chinese politics and […]
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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
The author helps us to understand the workings of the religious affairs bureaucracy first by following the story of an aspiring pastor, then by viewing them historically. The Chinese Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Association, China Christian Council, Religious Affairs Bureau and United Front Work Department are all discussed along with how they interact, lines of authority and the role of guanxi.
Bonhoeffer: An Exemplar for Facing Challenges
A Chinese professor has seen the glory of God in his own life; he will not be able to ignore God when he returns to teach in China. He knows this will introduce him to dilemmas requiring courage. “Will I have the courage?” he wonders.
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Word Choice Challenges
[…] God. Most cultures have a term for deity, but whether to use that term or introduce a new term is a critical translation decision (Eber, 1999; Zhao, 2010). The Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), asserted that the Chinese people had knowledge of the one true God as espoused in the Confucian Classics. Thus, Ricci […]
The Day China Changed Me
[…] as much as I could find it. I could barely swallow cooked rice. I ate nothing my first four days on the ground, and I ultimately lost 26 pounds by the end of my trip. Yet despite my rough beginnings, God used this man to change my heart and open my eyes to the […]
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Engaging the Highly Mobile Generation of Chinese Intellectuals
AFC adopted an innovative ministry model that focuses on supporting micro-communities, which reflect the highly mobile character of overseas Chinese intellectuals….Each micro-community exists to serve actual needs. Collectively, these micro-communities embody the ecosystem of the gospel—the variety of Christian life and the diversity of people groups.
Persecution: A Dangerous Opportunity for the Church in China?
[…] size of the congregation and numerical growth of the church. There are signs pointing to a growing appreciation of the early church’s emphasis on discipleship rather than numbers and size. In fact, the sudden popularity of cell groups reflects this trend in many ways. Admittedly the cell group model is not a totally new […]