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The Next Decade of the Church in China
[…] in China and presented their views, stating that: Since 2010, the development of Christianity in China has tended to be stable, even showing signs of stagnation. The number of Chinese Christians experienced rapid growth in the 1980s and 1990s but has seemingly stopped growing in the past decade. The proportion of Christians in China […]
Financial Considerations in Chinese Missionary Sending
Sources of Support and Difficulties in Raising Finances
Chinese Christians feel God calling them to long-term mission service. Attrition rates of Chinese missionaries are high, however, and a number of difficulties (including finances) hinder Chinese missionary sending. As part of a study examining causes of Chinese missionary attrition, I recently interviewed eleven Chinese long-term missionaries using a questionnaire developed by the World Evangelical Fellowship. In […]
ZGBriefs | June 16, 2016
<p></p> <p>Video: Sichuan Cuisine, Imperiled by Success (June 14, 2016, <em>The New York Times</em>)<br /> “Sichuanese cuisine really faces a crisis,” said Wang Kaifa, a 71-year-old chef who has been leading a campaign against what he sees as the creeping debasement of the region’s celebrated cooking. “The scene feels like it’s booming, but this is […]
ZGBriefs | November 3, 2016
[…] 2020, the 6.3 million target still gives the municipal government a few hundred thousand vehicles worth of wiggle room. A Toddler Dies as Her Mother Checks Her Phone, and China Wrings Its Hands (November 1, 2016, The New York Times) A video showing an S.U.V. running over a toddler while her mother appeared distracted […]
ZGBriefs | September 19, 2024
[…] market slump and the real estate crisis, at the 2024 Phoenix Financial Forum for the Greater Bay Area at the start of September. Biden Is Taking on Cheap Products from China. It Could Mean Higher Prices (September 13, 2024, AP News) President Joe Biden’s proposed rule says foreign companies can’t avoid tariffs simply by […]
The Chinese Internet–by the Numbers
I began working in China in the 1980s, long before the advent of the internet. A letter home took two weeks (at least). An international phone call cost $3.00/minute if I had the time and patience to sit in a dark and dingy telephone office for hours waiting for the call to go through. […]
How Many Christians Are There in China? It’s Complicated
[…] illustrate, I reached out to three individuals in the China academic and ministry communities and posed these two questions: 1) What is your preferred estimate on the number of Christians in China? 2) How do you arrive at that estimate? Professor Fenggang Yang of Purdue University responded in Part 1. Dr. Carsten Vala of […]
Peace in Detention
[…] before my eyes. God also allowed me to experience the apostles being beaten for the gospel, and yet spreading the gospel as soon as they left the Sanhedrin. God helped me truly understand, the meaning of “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.” Because in that […]
Chinese Churches Serving Those with Disabilities
[…] Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China (CCC & TSPM), the Amity Foundation, and local churches working together with domestic and international organizations. (The actual number may be far higher than this. According to the 2015 Social Service Ministries Annual Report published by the CCC & TSPM Social Service Department, 6,600 wheelchairs […]
ZGBriefs | June 30, 2016
[…] university degree. Chinese anger over 'sex degrades girls' textbook comment (June 28, 2016, BBC) A Chinese sex education textbook describing girls who have premarital sex as " cheap" has sparked a backlash on micro-blogging site Weibo. Premarital sex had a "tremendous negative psychological and physical impact on girls", said the High School Sex Education […]