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Editorial reflection and analysis on issues shaping Chinese Christianity.

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Stopping the Spread

Those partnering with China’s emerging missions movement would do well to consider what they may be passing on without even realizing it. Careful filtering of concepts and methods—but more importantly, values and unspoken assumptions—could help guard China’s future mission leaders from replicating painful mistakes.

Missions from China Today

I encourage you to read every word of “Doing Missions with Chinese Characteristics,” pray, and ponder both what God wants to teach you, as well as how you might apply it to your service to the world.

Chinese youth

A Generation of Digital Nomads (2)

Chinese youth are living in a world drastically different from a generation ago. What motivates young Chinese adults? What challenges are they facing? How should the church respond?

Chinese youth

A Generation of Digital Nomads (1)

Chinese youth are living in a world drastically different from a generation ago. What motivates young Chinese adults? What challenges are they facing? How should the church respond?

The Fading Vision of a Christian China

A book providing a valuable inside view of an era of unprecedented openness for Christianity in China and a sober historical assessment of why that era could not last.

Going Glocal in the Age of COVID-19

The COVID-19 epidemic has not only driven home the stark realities of living in a flat world where what happens in one country is able to radically alter life around the globe; it has also made possible a type of cross-cultural sharing among Christians that may not have happened otherwise were it not for the shared experience of a global pandemic.