The Church’s Greatest Crisis Comes from Inside
With the lack of pastoral ethics and recent church expansion, the use of power often becomes a problem. The causes of power abuse and the church’s response are explored.
Mary Li Ma
Mary Li Ma (MA Li) holds a PhD in sociology from Cornell University.
Currently a research fellow at the Henry Institute of Christianity and Public Life at Calvin University, Dr. Ma and her husband LI Jin have coauthored articles, book chapters, and are the authors of Surviving the State, Remaking the Church: A Sociological Portrait of Christians in Mainland China. They have guest edited several issues of the ChinaSource Quarterly.
Dr. Ma is also the author of The Chinese Exodus: A Theology of Migration, Urbanism and Alienation in Contemporary China, Religious Entrepreneurism in China's Urban House Churches: The Rise and Fall of Early Rain Reformed Presbyterian Church, and 通往阿斯兰的国度：C.S.路易斯《纳尼亚传奇》导读, a theological guide to C.S.Lewis’s Narnia series in the Chinese language.
Dr. Ma is a columnist on social and economic issues for Caixin.com and blogs at Theology and Society.
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Witnessing Christ through Ethical Leadership
The guest editors' point of view.
通往阿斯兰的国度
A theological guide to C.S.Lewis’s Narnia series in the Chinese language.
The Chinese Exodus
A sociological analysis as well as a theological discussion of China’s internal migration since the marketization reform in 1978.
Advantages and Challenges for Indigenous Researchers (2)
Four challenges that indigenous researchers face in researching the church in China.
Advantages and Challenges for Indigenous Researchers (1)
Access, trust, and past immersion in essential related fields are three advantages enjoyed by two indigenous Chinese researchers.
Why Every Returnee Should Read This Book
Very few returnees are informed realistically about the situations and challenges they will face both in the broader context and in the culture of the church when they return to China. This book can help.
Let’s Be Honest about Denominationalism in China
The guest editor's perspective.
Who Is Doing Public Theology in China?
A review of Alexander Chow's Chinese Public Theology: Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity.
Surviving the State, Remaking the Church
Selected by the International Bulletin of Mission Research as one of the ten outstanding books of 2017 for Missions Studies, this sociological portrait presents how Chinese Christians have coped with life under a hostile regime over a span of different historical periods, and how Christian churches as collective entities have been reshaped by ripples of social change.
My ChinaSource Story
I met Dr. Brent Fulton in the spring of 2008 at a ChinaSource consultation in Shenzhen.
The City and the Church
As China becomes increasingly urbanized, an urban theology for ministry is needed. As modern man finds himself slowly enmeshed in urban living, he experiences materialism, relativism, and an increasingly segmented society. He questions what is real and true, and who God is. These questions can become points of contact for urban ministry. Dr. Ma provides some guidelines for forming an urban theology for ministry in urban China.