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Invisible Planets

Contextualization and worldview are partners. Chinese science fiction allows us to see Chinese worldviews that are often not easily observed in everyday life.

Newsletters as an Adventure?

Laughing, cringing, reminiscing, and learning; reading my way through Love, Amy: An Accidental Memoir told in Newsletters from China was indeed an adventure. 

3 Questions: Jennifer Lin

An interview with the author of Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family.

Transitions Made Easier

From over 20 years of experience living in Asia, Amy Young has written a handbook to assist cross-cultural workers as they make transitions in a godly manner.

Street of Eternal Happiness

Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams along a Shanghai Road by Rob Schmitz the stories of  families and their neighbors living along one road in the former French Concession of Shanghai. 

I Was Wrong

A second look at Chinese Theology, an apology, and a way forward.

Chinese Theology: Text and Context

Most books on Chinese Christianity try to trace its history, focusing on key people, events, and movements. While Chloë Starr does not neglect these, she highlights something that most historians neglect: the theology that arose from different contexts expressed the thought and struggles of influential leaders, and shaped the ways that Christians responded to their situation.

An Unforgiving Mirror

Reading Kathleen Lodwick’s How Christianity Came to China (Fortress Press 2016) was disturbing for two reasons.