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In Memory of Tom White and Chuck Colson, and their great legacies

April 22nd, 201208:12 PM ET

By Mark Shan

Two news stories this week shocked the Christian world: Mr. Tom White (1947-2012), Voice of the Martyrs Executive Director, died on Tuesday (04-17-2012), and Mr. Chuck Colson (1931-2012), the Founder of Prison Fellowship, died on Friday (04-20-2012). I was shocked as well. I read the two news stories on The Christian Post and the VOM (Voice o...
Chicago, a city of great skyscrapers

April 17th, 201201:58 PM ET

By Mark Shan

Chicago is a great city. I am on my second trip to this attractive city, where I have come to conduct field research for my dissertation. Chicago is well known to many young Chinese because of its NBA team, the Chicago Bulls. But for me, it was through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the largest futures trading center in America, that I first bec...
Christians in Tibet: Not running aimlessly; Not fighting as beating the air

April 11th, 201211:49 PM ET

By Mark Shan

Recently I read a news online reporting a persecuted Han Chinese house church and their missionaries in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, China, won a rare victory on the Good Friday (04/06/2012) through a lawsuit against the police station's illegal persecution in last October. (Read the full report here) Two factors had amazed me in the report: ...
The Kingdom of God in Yurts: Christianity among Mongols in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

April 10th, 201203:50 PM ET

By Mark Shan

The Kingdom of God in Yurts: Christianity among Mongols in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries [1] By Mark Chuanhang Shan Published on Africanus Journal Vol. 3, No. 2 November 2011. Today, people often believe that the Mongols in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were nomadic barbarians who conquered great, civilized nations, such ...
The Bank of Flux

April 07th, 201212:49 PM ET

By Mark Shan

By Mark Chuanhang Shan I am in a flux, ending nowhere, the meaning of existence, open to definition forever. I am part of a flux, the same yet different, turbulent and calm, flowing to somewhere, for certain, roaring towards a bank, to which the flux owns its being. Eternity stands, calming the flux with an order. The flux embraces, but I reject...
Good Friday

April 06th, 201205:26 AM ET

By Mark Shan

By Mark Chuanhang Shan April 6, 2012 A Tent of Meeting erected. "There I will meet you and speak to you," You promised. The night is long and cold. Cloud covers the tent. You are waiting lonely. "Anyone comes, O Lord?" "No," you said, "not yet." You wait, in burning glory. --------------------------------------- Mark Shan's Upper Room in The Ch...
Welcome to my "Upper Room"!

April 04th, 201206:59 PM ET

By Mark Shan

Dear Readers, Praise the Lord Christ Jesus that I can have a room here to blog talk many things related to Christianity, mostly House Church Movement in China, and also theology, philisophy, ethics, history, love stroeis, journals and persnal reflections, etc. Thanks to CP for such a creative and danymic blog kingdom for God's glory. Please tole...

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