From Receiving Care to Building Care
This book explores the expansion of what is involved in missions and member care, member care in different regions and different sectors, and staying the course in good practice.
ZGBriefs
ZGBriefs | June 18, 2026
The Daughters Who Were Raised to Be Everything Under China’s One-Child Policy (June 6, 2026, Global Voices) When China ended the One-Child Policy in 2015, the shift was often described in demographic terms: declining birth rates, an aging population, and a policy adjustment to encourage more births.
ZGBriefs | June 11, 2026
How Emojis Have Become a Language Within a Language in China (June 9, 2026, Sixth Tone)
ZGBriefs | June 4, 2026
Secret Tunnels and Unregistered Workers: China’s Coal Mine Disaster Is a Reminder of Darker Days (May 31, 2026, BBC)
ZGBriefs | May 28, 2026
Before WeChat, There Were Qiaopi Writers (May 20, 2026, Sixth Tone) The last family letter Jiang Mingdian wrote crossed the Pacific Ocean.
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From Tending Sheep to Shepherding Souls
Salvation, he came to see, is not the story of human beings climbing upward by their own strength. It is the story of one who is willing to descend for the lost.
How God Called Me to Mongolia
All of a sudden, what started as a random set of strangers in a country I knew nearly nothing about outside of my middle school world history class, became God’s children whom he loved and the most important people in my life.
The Problem of Language in Teaching World Christianity
If we are to truly appreciate theology from a worldwide perspective, surely we need to engage theology in other languages.
Reframing the Mission
A decade ago, there was a groundswell of discussion and activity among global Christian organizations around how best to partner with China’s emerging mission…
No Longer Alone
When people who have long been studying, teaching, pastoring, and serving in different contexts finally sit in the same room, what becomes visible?
Providence and Vision
My experience of the election and grace of the Triune God—the providential care of the Heavenly Father, the guarding of the Holy Spirit, and the guidance of the Holy Son—is truly a testament to what John Newton described as Amazing Grace in his hymn: “grace appeared the hour I first believed.”
If Revival Comes III
We must explore what kind of ideology the Chinese church, which developed in tandem with such a turbulent history, would adopt as it enters the church, serves the church, and envisions the future.
Theological Negotiations in World Christianity
The universalizing claims of the Gospel about an unchanging God are spoken of in tension with the subjectivizing conditions of our lives in an ever-changing world.
As Trump and Xi Meet
Prayer is a way we can all draw closer to Christ and be a more unified church. This moment is not only about China or the United States. It is also about how the global church, as the body of Christ, remembers those who suffer, prays for those in power...
The Theological Coming of Age of the Chinese Church
The Chinese church is gradually moving from numerical breadth to intellectual maturity—from movement-driven growth to the building of institutions and a knowledge tradition.
Traveling to China
If you’ve been thinking about visiting China and wondering if you should go, I say DO IT!