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  • Taking the Long View

    Taking the Long View

    If I had first moved to China in the digital age, the face smack emoji would have punctuated many of my communications with people back home as I experienced a culture quite different from my… Read more

  • Unsung Women

    Unsung Women

    This year reading through the events of Jesus’ last week, the unsung players stand out. The women. Throughout history, their role has been downplayed, going all the way back to the Resurrection when they brought… Read more

  • Donkey Sunday

    Donkey Sunday

    On one of my sister’s many trips to China, I took her to visit a student’s countryside home. If you asked for her memories, she’d mention eating all our meals outside, the hole-in-the-ground toilet which… Read more

  • Tooting Horns

    Tooting Horns

    My grandpa colored his speech with a variety of sayings, some his own grandpaisms, others familiar adages with grandpa characteristics. Grandparents world round seem to be full of such witticisms. In fact, my sister and… Read more

  • Count Your Blessings

    Count Your Blessings

    Internal migration, the movement of people from rural, economically depressed areas to better developed cities in their own country, has marked China’s history since the 1990s. China’s 2020 census reported that 376 million people were… Read more

  • Love like a Neighbor

    Love like a Neighbor

    “Who is my neighbor?” a church leader asked. Jesus responded with a story that revealed a problem of the pious, their prejudice against anyone not like them, including people of different descent, religion, political perspective,… Read more

  • We are your biggest funs!

    We are your biggest funs!

    While the TikTok ban was looming last week, a half million “TikTok refugees” flooded to a lesser known Chinese app, 小红书, RedNote. According to news reports, the app’s current users offered a humorous welcome, helping… Read more

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