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The Spiritual Discipline of Perseverance
[…] and discipline to discover his perfect strength in our moments of weakness. Eugene H. Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992), 9-32. Rowan Williams, Christian Spirituality (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1980), 94-95. I have substituted “missionary” and “field” where Williams originally had “monk” and “monastery.” Image Credit: Chinese […]
Telling the Truth in China
A Book Review of Sparks
Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future by Ian Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2023, 400 pages. ISBN- 10: 0197575501, ISBN-13: 978-0197575505. Available from Amazon. Anyone familiar with Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson’s previous writing on China has likely already picked up a copy of his most recent book, Sparks. Johnson’s ability to combine his […]
What is Chinese Christianity?
[…] been any mid-sized suburban church in North America. This troubled me. Why would these urban Christians in a second-tier Chinese city choose to imitate the design of 1980s western churches? And where did they get this idea of what church “looks like”? Certainly, the proliferation of sermon videos on various Chinese online and social […]
3 Observations from Teaching Biblical Interpretation
For many international organizations working in China, the transition to local leadership can be a challenging one. In particular, it is not always easy to achieve high levels of spiritual formation when many local leaders are either first generation believers or fairly recent converts.
What Would it Take to Change?
[…] hardly be on the same side always. Timothy Richard, "Thoughts on Chinese Missions: Difficulties and Tactics" in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal XI, no. 6 ( 1880): 433-434. I confess that nearly 130 years later I often find myself presenting my Chinese neighbors, friends and co-workers with a very similar picture to the […]
The Translation of the Bible into Chinese
A Book Review
[…] scholars such as Irene Eber, Marián Gálik, Thor Strandenaes, and Oliver Zetzsche to outline the many people and issues that shaped the emergence of the final product. 1 The “Term Question” over how to translate the name of God into Chinese, disagreements over translation method, the role of Chinese assistants, and the influence of […]
The Challenges of Localization
Why Localize Now?
[…] for help from outsiders. Practically, foreigners were no longer admired and pursued. Xi Jinping’s arrival marked a highpoint in this confidence, an intentional return to the glory days of the revolution, with the government painting foreign influences in an extremely negative light. Foreigners are less welcome today than they have been since 1978 and […]
Worshiping in Chinese
Why Cross-Cultural Workers Don't Go to Chinese Church
[…] often our own unhealthy attitudes towards China and ministry that are keeping us out of Chinese pews rather than any conditions inherent in the Chinese context. Objection 1: "I went once, but there is no life in that church." This is one of the most common reasons given for not regularly attending local services. […]
Chinese Christianity Endures, Part 1
Studying the 18th-Century Church under Authoritarian Rule
[…] of Li Zibiao, see Henrietta Harrison, <em>The Perils of Interpretating: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire</em> (Princeton University Press, 2021); and especially Harrison, “Naples, China and the Cosmos: The Theology of an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Priest” in <em>The</em> <em>Journal of Ecclesiastical History</em>, 2023, 1–19. Mungello, <em>This Suffering</em>, chapter 6.
An Anti-Management Management Book
[…] on three temptations that draw Christian leaders into pursuing “the common path” (control, idolatry, and pride) and a list of the “ten marks of Christ-centered ministry.” The numbering reminds the reader that this is still a book on management, but the points all serve to flesh out the content of the above two paragraphs. […]