Firsthand accounts of faith lived out in the context of Chinese Christianity.
The Chinese have a saying: "shang you zhengce, xia you duice." A fairly literal translation is "the top adopts measures and the bottom adopts counter-measures. A more colloquial way of putting it is "the leaders make the policies and the people find a way around them."
A recent article in mainland-based site, The Christian Times, highlights some of the unique challenges of doing mission work among the Tibetan people.
A Chinese pastor offers encouragement to parents whose children are preparing to take the annual college entrance examination.
Chinese Christians go online to call for prayer for the victims of a deadly fire at a food processing plant.
An intereview with a woman pastor of a Three-Self Church in Beijing about the unique challenges of balancing here ministry with being a mother.
In 2008, the tainted milk scandal broke in China. Melamine was being added to locally produced milk products to increase the apparent protein content of the milk. More protein, better for your kids, right? Wrong. When added to food products, melamine can cause kidney stones and kidney failure. Melamine-laced milk caused the death of six infants and made approximately 300,000 children ill, 54,000 required hospitalization. The very thing parents bought to nurture their children was a danger to their health.
A Chinese Christian comments on the milk powder scandal, reminding fellow believers to focus on Christ and the Word and not rely on works or other "spiritual additives."
One of the easiest places to see real live Mainland Chinese folk beliefs is in the front seat of a Chinese taxi.
This article, translated from the mainland site Gospel Times, is about a young dancer named Liao Zhi who lost both of her legs in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
This is a translation of a long Weibo post by a leader in a Three-Self Church college fellowship. In it he relates a conversation he had recently with a friend regarding the deaths of so many people in the Wenchuan earthquake.
This article, posted on the mainland site Christian Times is a summary of an internet post by a pastor from Xinjiang Autonomous Region on how to discern true and false gods.
As a Chinese teacher, I feel like I am at war. The enemy is a voice in the back of my students' minds repeating "you can't do this." If they quit, the battle is lost.