Four Questions for the 2040s
A new series adapted from Sam Ling’s 2025 HLS lecture asks four guiding questions across four axes—China, the West, the church, and ideas—to help us think and serve faithfully as we look toward the 2040s.
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Challenges and Opportunities for the Chinese Mission Movement
Though Chinese house churches experience ongoing and intensifying restrictions, they have begun to develop sending structures to support cross-cultural missionaries. Even churches that have been forced to close are still finding ways to support missionaries that they have sent.
AI: Threats or Opportunities for the Church?
Is AI a threat to be feared, a tool to be leveraged, or both? How do we embrace its potential for the great commission without compromising the integrity of our message or the essence of our humanity?
The Digitalized Image of God and Corrupted Human Nature
How may the perverted order of humanity mirrored in AI be rectified and restored? It is at this point that we are motivated to explore how God’s grace can enable us to perform the image of God with our ectype, that is, AI.
Would Aquinas and Zhu Xi Embrace AI?
These eminent thinkers represent and have shaped two major traditions—Christianity and Confucianism. Hence, their wisdom may offer valuable guidance for Christians living and serving in a Confucian cultural context.
Green Learning and the Christian Response to AI
AI will not replace humans in tasks that demand creativity, generalizability, and abstraction. In most scenarios, AI will serve as an enabling tool to assist humans in decision-making.
Empowering the Church with Code
My encouragement in this AI era is to empower the coworkers, the Christians, the young Christians, and say it's okay for them to try things out, even if it's not conventional.
A Guide to Hope and Wisdom in the Age of AI
2084 and the AI Revolution is not simply a book about the dangers of technology, but a profound exploration of what it means to be human in a world that increasingly seeks to forget.
AI—Amplifying Virtues and Vices
This new ChinaSource Journal issue focusing on AI comes at an important time, where the practical benefits of AI are being weighed against important ethical and theological issues that come with every new technology.
Essential AI Resource Guide: Tools, Platforms, and Frameworks
Explore AI resources across various fields.
If Revival Comes I
Based on a review of over 160 years of modern church history in China, the author takes an optimistic view of the current situation and firmly believes that God is preparing present-day China to embrace another great revival of Christianity—hereafter referred to as "China’s Next Revival."
Encountering God in the World: Chinese Public Theology and the Call of Our Time
God is not confined to church walls. He meets us in the world’s wounded places.