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In the early months of 1878, a young woman of 18 and her colleague arrived at the train station in Barnsley, Yorkshire, embarked on a crusade. She had been sent by William Booth to open a branch of the Christian Mission in this mining town. Here work was tough—when it was available—and people were inured to the frequent changes of fortune that industrialization brings. More …

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Christianity Fever
Through a century of political turmoil and disillusionment, waves of Chinese intellectuals have come to Christ.
by Stacey Bieler and Carol Lee Hamrin

Caught Between Rome and Beijing
Chinese Catholics have endured devastating division in the past century.
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As for Me and My House
The house-church movement survived persecution and created a surge of Christian growth across China.
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Worshiping Under the Communist Eye
The birth of an "official" Chinese church helped Christianity thrive in public under political constraints.
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Missionaries in China were hampered by pressures from home, mistakes in leadership, and identification with the West, but they planted the seeds that would someday yield an astonishing harvest.
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Catherine Booth
Compelling preacher and co-founder of the Salvation Army

"If the Word of God forbids female ministry, we would ask how it happens that so many of the most devoted handmaidens of the Lord have felt constrained by the Holy Ghost to exercise it? … The Word and the Spirit cannot contradict each other."
   —Catherine Booth

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