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[update May 2018] Now it's ten years later This was an old blog post from 2008. Can you believe that this was 10 years ago!? Now that we have that out of the way, we want to use the more robust Blogger engine to see what kind of a blog and website we can build here on the Google-powered infrastructure in the cloud. It looks like Blogger can be actually quite useful for solid content that of course Google would know how to crawl and rank and have show up in its search engine results. In case you didn't know, Google owns Blogger. The back story, if you're interested This was a blog created as a placeholder on Blogger, so my username would be reserved for me and no one else could take it. Well, that part is true, no one has taken it. And according to the statistics portion, there's only been 20 views all time. So it's been in pretty quite safe keeping in the "dark web." Now with the internet namespace expansion of over a thousand new domain exte...

Article excerpt from "Second-Generation Chinese Evangelical Use of the Bible in Identity Discourse in North America," by Timothy Tseng, published in Semeia 90/91 (2002) 251–67, copyright © 2002 by the Society of Biblical Literature . (pp. 255-257)— Since the 1970s, identity discourse among Chinese evangelicals in North America has focused on urging immigrant church leaders to accept their socialization into North American culture and to share power and resources more equitably. During the NACOCE conferences in 1972, 1974, and 1978, advocates for North American–born Chinese pressed for greater attention. In 1978, a small group of West Coast American-born pastors received endorsements from NACOCE to form the Fellowship of American Chinese Evangelicals (FACE). This group sought to address the perceived problem of a high “drop out” rate among American-born Chinese (ABC) in Chinese churches, cultivate ABC church leadership, advocate for ABC ministries within Chinese churches, an...