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Peace in Detention
[…] I wouldn’t. The female officer said, “How do you know you wouldn’t?” I said that I wouldn’t, because of my faith and my conscience. They made a phone call to bring in their boss. Police officer numbered _____ looked very kind and friendly. He came in and said, “I’ve read some of the Bible. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 | April 6, 2017
[…] printed than anywhere else on Earth. There is a good chance any Bible you buy, especially from Bible Society, has been printed in China. a A young Australian, David Thorne, had a key role in this transformation. Thorne had a conviction God would use his print production skills for the kingdom. As a Religion, […]
November 22, 2012
[…] and Religious Regulations in China (Pacific Institute for Social Sciences)The development of Christianity in China over the past thirty years has been extraordinary, both in terms of number of followers and influence. The official figure for number of Christians in China is 18 million; however many scholars believe that this figure is under-estimated. Outside […]
Concerns of a Three-Self Pastor for 2020
. . . before the Covid-19 Crisis
<p>Before news of COVID-19 broke into their lives, what were Chinese Christians concerned about? What were the top issues going into 2020? Chen Shengfeng, a Three-Self pastor, shares 20 concerns facing the Chinese church.</p>
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. […]