My Chineseness May Be Different from Yours
Whether I called myself Chinese, Korean, or Taiwanese, none of these identities seemed capable of describing me fully.
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The Legacy of Song of a Wanderer
For the past three decades, Song of a Wanderer has been a go-to apologetics resource in many overseas Chinese churches and student fellowships seeking to share the gospel with students and scholars from China.
More Than a Place of Worship
Chinese churches in Germany often bring together people whose paths might otherwise remain separate: migrants from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia; students and businesspeople; recent arrivals and long-term residents; people carrying very different political memories and assumptions.
Born to Not Fit In
Through my many travels and encounters, I have discovered that the non-fitting place is precisely where I am meant to be as a disciple of Jesus among God’s people.
Leaving China, Entering Mission?
Chinese churches are going abroad—but are they truly entering mission?
A Church in Motion
Today, the Chinese church in North America is serving people on the move while learning how to remain faithful in a world that is also in motion.
From Wuzhou to Makassar
For ChinaSource readers, the story invites us to remember Chinese Christianity not as a simple one-directional story of Western missionaries going to China, but as a deeply interconnected history of receiving, translating, indigenizing, and sending.
The Challenge of Scientism in Chinese Diaspora Mission
The thought patterns formed by long-term, deeply embedded atheistic education and scientism remain a major epistemological threshold that Chinese diaspora Christians must cross in evangelism, as well as a stronghold that apologetics must address.
A Divine Displacement
The Chinese diaspora in Europe is transitioning from being a “mission field” (the recipient of gospel activity) to a burgeoning “mission force” (the agent of missional change).
Where Are We?
Diaspora is not a condition to be solved. It is a place to be inhabited.
Text and Digital Ministry for Chinese Diaspora Mission
Looking back at history, we can see the importance of Chinese-language text ministries—and later digital ministries—in outreach to the Chinese diaspora outside China.
Periphery and Center—Diaspora, Scenarios, and Watchfulness
In Part 6, I reconsidered the West. Finally, I turn to the Chinese diaspora and offer several scenarios for the years ahead—ending where I began: with questions, not forecasts.