You’ve heard that China is creating a social credit system. This is the system where the Chinese government ranks people based on whether they conform to dictated social norms. In this video, Antonio Hmaidi, a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Economics discusses the impact what Chinese social credit system and its potential influence on China. Unlike many overviews we find on the web, she provides detailed background and analysis. She points out that over 70 pilot programs are currently running,… Read more
April 3, 2019
The nitty gritty of the China’s social credit system. Could this happen in America?
April 3, 2019 By Jackson Wu
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April 2, 2019
The Best of China Source Quarterly
April 2, 2019 By Jackson Wu
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Have you seen the most recent issue of China Source Quarterly (CSQ)? I think you’ll like what you find. For those who don’t know, CSQ is a journal that covers various happenings in China. The March issue provides a survey of CSQ’s most popular issues and articles. Read more
March 27, 2019
When Good Missionaries Get the Bible Wrong (Part 2)
March 27, 2019 By Jackson Wu
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Part 1 examined ways that missionaries sometimes misapply or misinterpret the Bible when talking about mission practice. Perhaps they want to find biblical support for “best practices.” In this post, we’ll look observe other ways that good missionaries can get the Bible wrong. Read more
March 20, 2019
“Sinicized Christianity” is Not Christianity
March 20, 2019 By Jackson Wu
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Last year, I suggested that China’s 5-year plan to Sinicize Christianity is political, not biblical. It is syncretism, not contextualization. A year later, we can speak with even more clarity: “Sinicized Christianity” is not Christianity. Why would I say this? Read more
March 13, 2019
When Good Missionaries Get the Bible Wrong (Part 1)
March 13, 2019 By Jackson Wu
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Someone advised me not to write this article. But silence is exactly why we have so many poorly written mission books. Missionaries are hesitant to disagree in print. And so, we stifle dialogue. Nevertheless, we must engage one another about the ways the Bible influences our mission methods. Read more
March 6, 2019
How Shame Can Prevent People from Repenting
March 6, 2019 By Jackson Wu
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For so long, Christians have tried to conjure a guilty conscience in the minds of those who hear the gospel. Until recently, few people typically spoke of shame and evangelism in the same sentence. This is unfortunate because shame is a far bigger obstacle to people coming to saving faith than are guilt-feelings. In this post, I explain three reasons that shame fosters inaction and hinders people from changing in their lives. Why Shame Kills Change Fear Shame concerns a… Read more
February 27, 2019
Should Evangelism Provoke Guilt or Expose Shame?
February 27, 2019 By Jackson Wu
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Chris Flanders gave a game-changing presentation on the role of guilt and shame in evangelism at the 2018 conference of the Evangelical Missiological Society. Here’s why. According to Christian “common sense,” successful evangelism must satisfy an important requirement. It must evoke a sense of guilt in the minds of hearers. This message abounds in missionary literature, which emphasizes the importance of guilt through the study called “elenctics.” Are we guilty of defining “elenctics” wrong? This strange sounding word stems from… Read more
February 20, 2019
Honor, Shame, and Imposter Syndrome
February 20, 2019 By Jackson Wu
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Imposter syndrome is the belief that you’re “an inadequate and incompetent failure, despite evidence that indicates you’re skilled and quite successful.” You fear being exposed as the fraud you are (or at least think you are). Imposter syndrome affects countless people in a wide range of ways. Our job might be the most common area we might experience imposter syndrome. We think, “How in the world did I get this job, promotion, or praise from my supervisor? If they really… Read more
February 13, 2019
The Coddling of the American Missionary
February 13, 2019 By Jackson Wu
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Three untruths have coddled the American missionary mind. I summarized them in my previous post. The Untruth of Fragility: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker The Untruth of Emotional Reasoning: Always trust your feelings The Untruth of Us Versus Them: Life is a battle between good people and evil people. These untruths are the focus of Haidt and Lukianoff’s The Coddling of the American Mind (which is the most important book I read from 2018). In this post, we apply them… Read more
February 6, 2019
The Most Important Book I Read from the Past Year (and how knowing untruth can set you free)
February 6, 2019 By Jackson Wu
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The most significant, insightful, and provocative book of 2018, in my opinion, was The Coddling of the American Mind (by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff). I’m far from the first person to make that claim. However, fewer people have identified ways that the book’s key ideas might impact the church and especially missionaries. This post prepares us to do just that. The book expands on the authors’ article originally published in The Atlantic. I cannot write a summary that could possibly… Read more
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