“I can’t help being enormously proud of this country, ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’” On Sunday, July 6, I attended a church service imbued with patriotic sentiment; my first time to commemorate the 4th of July in church in the United States. Church members from different countries together sang […]
A True Story of Chinese Women It was almost midnight. We were awakened by the noise of someone frantically knocking on the door. My aunt, my mother’s younger sister, was being carried by her husband; pale, visibly weak to the point of fainting, and seriously sick. They came into our small apartment followed by other […]
The still unknown Tank Man defying a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square. Photo by Jeff Widener, AP I graduated from Peking University in 1989. Just a few years ago, when I arrived in the U.S., a friend of mine asked me about Tank Man. “Tank Man?” – I shook my head; he could have […]
“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1). On March 12, 2014, China Aid Association reported that a Christian woman was arrested by the police on Christmas Day. The charge was engaging in a Christmas celebration in public and preaching the Gospel on Christmas Day. According to the […]
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama XIV I like the quote from the Dalai Lama, “Be kind whenever possible…”. In other words, it is possible to always be kind… but there may be a price to pay. Jampa’s fate confirms the aphorism that when you are a sheep among wolves, […]
…the right of every person to practice their faith how they choose “We, therefore, believe in the inherent dignity of every human being – dignity that no earthly power can take away. And central to that dignity is freedom of religion – the right of every person to practice their faith how they choose, to […]
“We cannot track you when you are in the U.S.” ChinaAid, a Christian association in the U.S. that defends freedom of religion in China, recently published an article I wrote about a Chinese pastor that was detained by authorities and, in general, the deplorable situation of religious freedom in China. The moment I read the […]
Chinese New Year is coming soon. It reminds me of my first and also last reunion with the old girls and old boys from high school before the 2008 Chinese New Year. As we chatted and drank tea, the organizer, who used to be our class monitor, causally said, “Yuanming will never make it to […]
“If you have faith as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’, and it shall move; and nothing shall be impossible to you (Matthew 17:20).” This is what is happening in China today – more and more Chinese are sowing this mustard seed and seeking the salvation of […]
I grew up on a bike, literally, in “bicycle kingdom”– China. In 2008, my salary as a college lecturer was about US$180 a month. Living in a mammoth metropolis like Beijing, with six rings of highways encircling the city, I needed transportation to take my son to and from school and go to work three […]