A Christmas Guest: A Novel

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Anne Perry has dazzled readers for decades with her gripping Victorian novels and has won new fans with her acclaimed World War I series. Perry’s thrilling Christmas novels, recent additions to her unique repertoire, are set in the most joyous season of the year.

In A Christmas Guest, Mariah Ellison, better known as the vinegar-tongued Grandmama from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, makes a stunning appearance in a bracing story full of devious delight . . . and certain death.
For Grandmama Ellison, Christmas is no reason to celebrate. And when her daughter and son-in-law plan a Christmas vacation to Paris sans hers truly, the cantankerous Grandmama is forced to stay elsewhere–and travels to the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes to spend the holiday with Charlotte Pitt’s parents, Caroline and Joshua Fielding.

Grandmama is immediately miserable. For starters, Christmas with the Fieldings is nothing like the cultured life to which she’s accustomed, and the Romney Marshes are unbearably provincial. When Joshua’s cousin Maude Barrington arrives, Grandmama is at her wit’s end. Although Maude is well traveled and friendly, Grandmama thinks she’s improper and strange. But when Maude is found lifeless in bed, Grandmama senses foul play and takes it upon herself to assume the role of amateur detective–uncovering not only the truth about Maude Barrington but some startling truths about herself as well.

Enlivened with bold characters and vivid, witty writing, A Christmas Guest is yet another holiday novella with the perfect combination of mystery and murder mixed with a generous helping of yuletide cheer.

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Item was sent very quickly and in excellent condition. Great Seller........2007-01-19

Item was sent very quickley and in excellent condition.

Great! Not your regular Christmas story...........2006-08-12

I don't want to give away too much of the plot, but this Anne Perry gem truly SHINES. No, it's not your average Christmas story with predictable, shopworn plot devices. But being atypical is what makes it so great. Anne always delivers a great story and this is NO expection!!!

I love her historical mysteries...she puts you right THERE...you're always cheering for the hero or heroine, and her villians are really despicable...And if you're looking for a complex character, you'll be fanscinated with "A Christmas Guest's" Grandma Ellison...

Another atypical holiday story I thoroughly enjoyed was : "Christmas Gifts, Christmas Voices" by John Allen. It's heartbreaking, it's inspiring...and if you hang till the astonishing climax, it's comforting...

----------A nice enjoyable story----------.......2006-06-26

A CHRISTMAS GUEST is my first Anne Perry novel. Apparently the author uses the same characters in a lot of her stories and it took me some time to keep everyone straight. The main character is Mariah Ellison, almost always referred to as "Grandmama" in this book. She seems to be a very unlikable lady.

Grandmama lives with Emily her granddaughter in London. The story begins when Emily is telling her that she and her husband are going to France for Christmas and that Grandmama will be spending Christmas with Emily's mother who is Grandmama's former daughter-in-law. The older lady is furious, but she makes the trip.

In truth, Mariah Ellison is a very rude person. Her son had died and the daughter-in-law is now remarried to Joshua. She and her new husband are very kind to the older lady, but it's not appreciated in the least. When Maude Barrington, a distant aunt of Joshua's is also sent to share their Christmas, Grandmama is livid. She thinks that the newcomer is stupid and instead of being kind to Maude, she's abrupt and difficult. Actually Maude is very interesting as she had spent the last 40 years of her life traveling in Persia and Africa.

This was a strange and convoluted story, but the diverse characters kept me on my toes. In the past, poor relatives were fostered out and taken in by relatives out of charity, but in reality they were often poorly received. This story also takes on the situation where relatives would come to stay and take advantage of their hosts, so I guess it went both ways!

After a slow start, I ended up enjoying this story.

Surprisingly Wonderful!.......2006-01-18

Fearing another Christmas Journey mess and hoping for a book along the lines of Christmas Visitor, I had no idea what I'd find in A Christmas Guest. What I found was a great story excellently written.

To be honest, I could not imagine Grandmother as a sympathetic character. I do not want to give away much of the surprise for anyone who hasn't read this, but we see another side of the cranky old lady and we come to understand her better.

After seeing her in a different light, I'm curious as to how Perry portrays her in the upcoming Pitt novels. I hope she will allow Grandmother's character to grow- it would be a waste of great character if she doesn't.

A Christmas Guest is one of Perry's best efforts. There's a seemingly unsolvable mystery, a full cast of suspects, humor, a moral, and a great feeling of satisfaction after you've turned the last page.

A lovely book.

An enjoyable and uplifting read that is perfect for the holidays.......2005-12-16

In Victorian England, Grandmama Mariah Ellison, chronically cranky and miserable, must stay with the mother of Charlotte Pitt (of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series), Caroline Fielding, and her younger actor-husband, Joshua, for the holidays. Since Grandmama's daughter and son-in-law are off to France, she is disgruntled at being shuffled off to chilly, windswept, and rustic Romney Marshes. How dare her daughter treat her this way! She prepares to be bored out of her mind.

Grandmama's boredom lasts only a few days. A new visitor, Maude Barrington, arrives; she is a distant relative of Joshua's, and her family inexplicably does not wish for her to stay with them for Christmas. Vibrant Maude has spent 40 years away from England, traveling the world's exotic desert destinations by herself. She regales them with tales of the marvelous sites she's experienced --- Persian gardens, African cities, and the scent of moonlit jasmine blossoms. Grandmama is not charmed. She is jealous of the attention Caroline and Joshua bestow on the interloper, and appalled at the very idea of a lone Englishwoman traipsing through foreign countries. However, deep down, she feels a certain interest as she unwillingly spends time with the fascinating Maude.

Early one morning, a maid bursts into Grandmama's room with horrendous news --- Maude is dead. Grandmama is quite put out: now they will have to spend Christmas in mourning! Her dreary holidays will become even worse, with everyone wearing black, the mirrors covered, and all of them eating cold meats.

But Grandmama also feels sorrow. After all, like Grandmama herself, Maude was a visitor at Romney Marshes because her family didn't want her with them. She wishes she had let Maude know how much she admired her. In retrospect, she feels great pangs at the loss of someone who could have been a true friend. She wonders how the almost obnoxiously healthy younger woman could have died. Soon Grandmama focuses on the peppermint water Maude had mentioned she would take that night for indigestion. Who gave Maude the herbal tincture?

Grandmama becomes determined to discover the truth surrounding Maude's death. In fact, she feels she owes it to Maude and even offers to travel to notify Maude's family of her demise. Grandmama wonders if their rejection of Maude isn't related somehow to her death.

Grandmama is soon a guest at Maude's family's home. As Grandmama attempts to elicit information from Maude's relatives, she discovers how difficult effective sleuthing can be. Is she asking the right questions? Will she find herself in danger? Even more importantly, she delves into the mysteries of her own life that explain her cantankerous personality. Her introspection leads her to wonder if a life led without joy can be redeemed. Is she set in her ways, or can she change at this late date?

The complex layers beneath Grandmama's waspish character deepen the murder mystery plot, which more than compensates for a resolution that feels the slightest bit rushed. As always, Anne Perry's description of life in Victorian England is fascinating. A CHRISTMAS GUEST is a quick and enjoyable read with an understated and uplifting theme of redemption, making it a perfect refuge during the harried holidays.

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A Christmas Guest: A Novel
Anne Perry
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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4 stars for short stories...........2007-08-14

There should be a different rating system for short stories, I think. LOL

You can't expect much depth.
You can't expect much...mystery.

Sometimes though, your in the mood for some quick reads and whalla. Short stories come in handy that way.

This book includes 4 short stories. All were worth reading (for short stories).
1. Magic in the Wind: the first Drake sister book (Sarah) also sold by itself, but at slightly over 100 pages in length it works good in a set.

2. Hot August Moon by Katherine Sutcliffe

3. After Midnight, by Fiona Brand

4. Only Human by Eileen Wilks

Good group of shorts.......2006-12-29

At times, I really enjoy short stories. My mind doesn't want to delve into a whole long book and short stories are just what I need. When it is a group of authors as good as these, well...HEY! This was a fun read, and a book I have put on my keeper shelf. Having Feehan and Kenyon was the main reason I felt it was a keeper.

An interesting mix of stories.......2005-09-02

In Christine Feehan's MAGIC IN THE WIND, death stalks a former government brainchild. After an attempted kidnapping leaves him maimed and his research assistant dead, Damon Wilder moves to a sleepy coastal community to hide from his enemies. Damon is just going through the motions until the day he hears of the return of Sarah Drake, the town's favorite daughter. Intrigued by the fantastical tales of Sarah's feats, Damon sets off to meet this paragon and finds his fate. A life filled with magic has prepared security expert Sarah Drake to meet every challenge, but she never counted on her new assignment setting in motion an old family prophecy. Can Sarah save Damon from his enemies and fulfill their destiny?

A murderer is loose in Katherine Sucliffe's HOT AUGUST MOON. Now, however, he has not only killed several prostitutes, but also the wife and two young children of assistant district attorney J.D. Damascus. J.D.'s best friend and colleague, Jerry Costos, is under heavy pressure to find the killer, so he asks the FBI to send a profiler to help with the case. Never does he expect the profiler assigned to be Anna Travelli, his former lover. For Anna, it's bad enough to put up with the testosterone-laden attitudes of the detectives who aren't happy to have her butting in on their case, but she's also got a secret she must keep hidden from Jerry. It's going to be a long, hot summer in New Orleans.

It's a case of long overdue passion in Fiona Brand's AFTER MIDNIGHT. Jane O'Reilly and Michael Rider never meant to fall in love, but they did. It was sudden, it was passionate and it was wrong, for each were married to other people. Tacitly agreeing to part, they went their separate ways seven years ago. Now Jane is a widow and Michael has returned, determined to finally claim his woman. There's just one hitch to his plans. There's a rapist and murderer loose in their town, and he's just become the main suspect. But even as Michael fights to clear his name, danger is stalking Jane.

Eileen Wilks' ONLY HUMAN takes us to San Diego in an altogether different reality. In this San Diego, magic is real and paranormal creatures exist, along with human prejudices. Homicide detective Lily Yu has her hands full. Not only does she have to deal with the disapproval of her large family over her career, said career is on the line if she doesn't solve the series of grisly murders terrorizing the city. When evidence suggests the murderer is a werewolf, Lily is told to work with Rule Turner, prince of the Clan Nokolai, the area's largest lupine community. It's instant attraction between the two, but can they overcome the cultural differences between their species (and families) to make it work?

Madness, mayhem and murder abound in varying degrees in the LOVER BEWARE anthology. Christine Feehan delights with her whimsical tale of seven bewitching sisters (one can easily predict that the Drake siblings will be a fun series), while Eileen Wilks' lupine world will leave readers begging for more. Although Katherine Sutcliffe does a stellar job of delving into the dark abyss of a murderer's mind, this story is too closely tied with her single title, BAD MOON RISING, to be able to stand as a separate story. Surprisingly, Fiona Brand proves to be the weakest link in this anthology. While Ms. Brand's characters are compelling and the story has promise, as a whole her tale appears rushed and lacks true substance. Nevertheless, LOVER BEWARE should provide fans of these authors with a delicious shiver...or two.

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Frank Coppalas Dracula.......2003-10-23

If you ever saw Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves Dracula. Describes her Dark Series to a tee. I love her books. Makes you feel sorry for Dracula. See the movie and you will know what I'm talking about.

Quantity over Quality.......2003-08-26

I'm a huge fan of Christine Feehan -- I own all of her books, two copies of some -- and that's why I purchased "Lover Beware." I do wish, however, that she would eschew short stories and novellas and stick with her wonderful full-length novels. Her short stories allow for neither character nor plot development. This story could have been so much more. I'll continue to purchase any book with Ms. Feehan's name on the cover, but I believe that her best body of work are the full-length Dark novels.
The other stories in the book were akin to excerpts and were clearly crying, "Buy the sequel!"

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Beware a Lover's Lie

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Katerina's visit to Tenerife was no holiday! She was on a mission-determined to track down her sister's boyfriend and her missing six thousand pounds. But she needed help, and Axel Jerez seemed the likeliest candidate. But Axel was a decidedly reluctant knigt in shining armor. Indeed, he seemed to be doing his best to foil her efforts at every turn.

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Stephanie Howard
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Beware Young Lovers
Hugh Pentecost
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Innocent Blood, Beware Young Lovers & They Stay For Death

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Innocent Blood, Beware Young Lovers & They Stay For Death

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Rare Find! Three mysteries in 1!

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Innocent Blood, Beware Young Lovers, They Stay for Death
P. D. And Pentecost, Hugh and Woods, Sara James
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Lover Beware
Christine; Sutcliffe, Katherine; Wilks, Eileen; Brand, Fiona Feehan
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Aikman on China

Jesus in Beijing

Two Jews - Marx & Jesus in China

A FERTILE, WELL-TILLED LAND

God's Work in China Prospers

Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power
David Aikman
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This book details the great unreported story of the Chinese giant and its enormously rapid conversion to Christianity and what this change means to the global balance of power.

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Aikman on China.......2007-09-13

Mr. Aikman has presented an excellent picture of the development of Christianity in China, right up to the present. It is very well written, enjoyable to read, and very informative. Having traveled to China on numerous occasions in recent years, I have found that my experiences have been confirmed by what he writes. This book is the best I have come across if you are looking for a picture of the recent development and situation of the church in China.

Jesus in Beijing.......2007-03-02

Jesus in Beijing is a well written account of the history of Christianity in China from 600 A.D. to the present. Most of the book deals with the 20th Century. In the early 1970's, after the oppression and persecution of Mao's Cultural Revolution some western observers wondered if Christianity still survived in China. As it turned out, the church was alive and well. In spite of persecution of varying intensity throughout the reign of the Communist Party in China, the church has grown from about three million to approximately seventy million people today. One of the most surprising things about this rapidly growing church is its response to the increasing affluence of freedom within China today. Instead of focusing on material pleasures and toys, much of the church is dreaming of evangelizing the predominately Muslim lands between China and Israel. They reason that the Chinese church already knows how to suffer poverty and persecution and feel that they are prepared to pay the price for spreading the Christian message in Muslim countries. The author's speculation about the impact of Christianity on China's geopolitical future are also very interesting. While the possibility of the emergence of China as a belligerent, adversarial superpower exists, the author feels that the influence of Christianity on China may lead to a future in which China and the United States may in fact become allies. An interesting, informative book. Highly recommended.

Two Jews - Marx & Jesus in China.......2006-11-18

Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is transferring China and changing the Global Balance of Power, is a personal account of a reporter who dedicated the martyrs for their faith from CE 635 to modern time.
This book gives a brief orientation on how Christianity came to China in 7th Century known as Nestorian Christians. There was a stele commemorating this east-west cultural and religious exchange, being translated by James Legge in bilingual text that I happened to have a reprint copy. Then he carried on the history to the new millennium. Besides Franciscan, Dominican and Augustinian, Jesuits had a good relationship with the Royal Court in the exchange of knowledge in 17th Century. However, the Pope, a religion authority tried to interfere the cultural and internal affairs of China over the tradition rite of honoring ancestors and Confucius. The Chinese Emperors issued "Edit of Expulsion and Confiscation" to drive Catholics out. The 19th Century of Anglo-Saxon Protestant ventured back to China in opium boats and gunboats. No wonder why Marx called Religion is the opium of people. Robert Morrison, an Englishman, was credited to translate the Bible into Chinese with no mention to the assistance from his convert Liang Fa. Morrison came in and was employed by East India Company, the monopoly opium pusher and smuggler to Chinese. England waged the Opium Wars 1839 and 1856. He died of diseases and was buried in East India Company cemetery in Macau. The Gospel of John was beautifully translated in Taoist terms, totally disregard to intellectual property. Chinese God Son, Hong Xiuquan who wanted to establish Chinese version of Kingdom of Heaven, made the Christian Tai Ping Rebellion. However, this Heavenly Peace Kingdom was brutally suppressed by the Christian Europe in manpower and gun power in support with The Ching Dynasty The 1900 Boxer Movement was a struggle against foreigners especially missionaries. The book did not mention two humiliating unequal treaty terms known as most-favored nation clause meaning if a foreign power squeezed any Chinese concessions, all other powers would share the same privileges, and extra-territoriality which meant all foreigners in China were not subject to the laws and jurisdiction of Chinese government. This book did not ask the question: why Boxer pick on the disciples of "love your neighbors as yourself"? These God's representatives did not practice what they peach. There were many exceptions such as American Rev. Hunter Corbett, whose grandson I met last year. The American share of Boxer Indemnity was devoted to Chinese higher education with heavy lobby. (See articles in magazine Chinese American Forum).
The Three Self Churches was created by Chinese Christians in 1920s not in 1950s as alleged, to declare independence from foreign masters who dictated power, donations and policy, long before Mao's regime to administer patriotic church affairs. A Chinese pastor confirmed recent incidence of such hard-nose attitude and he rebuked and refused such conditional funding. The subsequent chapters described Christian mainly protestant house church activities and politics under Mao's Republic. Only one chapter was about Roman Catholics. Chapter 14 talked about missionaries came in disguise as English teacher by lies and deception. In mid 90s, some feverish American missionaries came to recruit Chinese converts to smuggle Bibles to China. Why not they themselves do the dirty work? This chapter also exposed a home grown quasi-Christian cult know as Eastern Lightning with an reincarnation of Jesus as a Chinese woman along with others such as Born-Again movement, Falungong and Little Flock.
David gave an impressive detail account on the development of Christianity in China. It is "love your neighbor as yourself" doctrine to the teaching in the land of "do not do onto others as you do not want others do onto you". He devoted the last chapter in "China's Christian future?" with the possible answers - a more responsible power, an emerging menace, democracy and changing the fare of Christendom.

Reading this book creates the following questions.
1. Nestorian Christians came to China but died out long time, Mohammed established Islam and immediately sent his four disciples to China where they all left their body and soul in Beijing. Does it mean China will become Christian or Moslem?
2. China is a virgin land from missionary eyes, what will happen if all denominations ranging from Baptist, Mormon, Christian Scientist, Pentecostal, Jehovah's Witness, Seven-Days Adventists, Moon's Church to Branch Davidian of Waco Texas claim their share and dominate with eventual government tanks crushing?
3. Will orthodox Christianity accept Chinese Gnostic Christians incorporating the teaching of Buddhism, Taoism and folk religions as cult members?
4. What will happen if Chinese Christians find out lie in be(lie)f, history and theology, Jesus and Christ, truth and faith, and Catholic and Protestant?
5. Will Chinese Christian burn witches, start Crusade killings, and turn hospitals into churches with faith healing miracle to avoid high medical cost?
6. Will Chinese Christian support stem cell research, abortion and the teaching of evolution?
7. Will US accept Chinese Christian made according to American compassion self image? (The allegation P.288 about China closed in upon great hostility to US between Korean War and Kissinger's visit was doubtful. If he researched further, he would find that Premier Chou En-lai always wanted American friendship but US red scare prevented it from happening. Chou extended his hand to the American official at the encounter of Indo-China Peace meeting 1954 and was refused. This is why Nixon upon arrival Beijing stepped up and extended his hand to Chou first for a 28-year make-up.)
8. Will the evangelical Chinese Christian on west journey to Jerusalem convert Moslems to bring about crush and confrontation?
9. Will foreign powers invade Christian China to protect national interest?
10. Will a Christian China lamb become the political and economic scapegoat when Christian brothers lose their jobs or rocket secrets?
11. Does the American public know about the educator missionary - Minnie Vautrin being honored with a bronze bust and a scholarship fund in her former campus in Nanking, China 2002? Please read about her in book, The American Goddess at Rape of Nanking, by Dr Hua-ling Hu and review.
12. The Bill of Rights came about because before American and French Revolutions in Christian world, there were only Divine rights and king's right, but not human rights. Was UN human right draft based on Christian or Confucius idea? Check it out.
13. Will Jesus laugh or cry if he witnesses his disciples instead of standing with him on humanity, justice and peace, destroy other ethnic cultures, change their value system and the mode of thinking?
14. Will Chinese Christian send back missionaries to first and second world countries to win back lost souls as major Cathedrals serve more as tourist attraction than houses of worship?
15. Will Chinese Christian make the same remarks as their American Indian brothers: We used to have land and they have the Bible; now we have the Bible and they have the land?
16. Will Chinese Christian be the blessed peacemaker on diversity harmony among the brotherhood of Judaism, Christianity and Islam as God is the Father of three faiths?
17. Will a powerful Christian China become an imperial or colonial power as their Christian brothers of 19th Century?
18. What will happen when Chinese Christians are Bible lover but ignorant about Buddhism and Taoism both of which are the spiritual salvation for Western seekers?
19. Will Chinese Christian want to have the best by declaring to be a Taoist-Christian as so claimed by my American campus minister friend?
20. Will Chinese Christian practice what they preach?
21. The producer of River Eulogy, Yuan Zhiming and company dreamed of democracy in China based on Christianity. He tried hard to adapt by misinterpreting and distorting ancient Chinese Classics to convert. It is interesting to ask why Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, a devoted Christian failed miserably in bringing about democracy even some of his supporters baptized their troops with garden hose.
22. Will a Christian China become American two-party or European multi-party democracy? Why a high number of Christian countries notably in Africa and South America are not relevant?
23. What will happen if China becomes a theocracy?
24. Will Chinese Christian accept from the DNA burden of "Communist five black types" to that of "Original sin"?
25. Will Chinese Christians be willing to switch from "shame" culture to "sin" culture?
26. Will Chinese Christian prevent exposing clergy in sexual scandal and corruption?
27. Will Chinese Catholic keep Vatican II in treating Jews, Buddhists, Moslems and people of other faiths in respect without conversion?
28. Will Chinese Christian judge others, good or bad depending on their Christian membership?
29. What will happen when Chinese Christian create a "Chinese Messiah" and start a "People Temple"?
30. How will Chinese Christians treat belivers as family menbers or as Confucius teaching that all human around four seas are?
31. Will chinese Christians unite Catholics, Roman and Eastern Orthodox,and all denominations of Protestants?
32. Will God feel good if the Garden of Eden is full of only Christians, one kind of plant, animal and fish?
33. Will Chinese Christians become Anti-Semitics because the Bible said Jews killed Jesus?
34. Will Chinese Christians expect the victims turn the other cheek?
Will Chinese Christians accept other Christians as brothers and sisters or accept all human as brothers and sisters taught by Confucius?

It is a miracle to see how a Jewish cult develops into a culture. Jesus sacrifices his life in protest against inhumanity, inequality and unjust of the Roman Empire. Truly this man was the Son of God, exclaimed the Roman centurion (Mark 15:39)

Mr Karl Marx, please sit down!
Will the real Jesus please stand up?

A FERTILE, WELL-TILLED LAND.......2006-09-27

As China re-emerges as a dominant power in the 21st century, much will hinge on the beliefs of the people in that country when it comes to the actions it takes and tolerates around the world. Oddly, the fascism of the Communist regime remains largely in place in the era following Mao's disastrous reign, even as capitalism and other Western ideals spread like wildfire through this huge, heavily-populated, and (from a Western perspective)oftentimes strange land. Aikman does an excellent job of covering the basic bullet points of the history of Christianity in China, as well as introducing readers to the many Chinese Christians who have led or continue to lead the church in their country. On a recent trip to China, I was highly impressed by the deep generosity, humility, resourcefulness, strength, perseverance, and kindness exhibited by Chinese of all ages. This spirit hums just below the surface in the stories Aikman tells of the Christian Chinese and their faith. This spirit is also, I believe, one of the major reasons why the life and teachings of Jesus seem to so easily take root in the hearts of so many Chinese. Also, those who are concerned that a "Christian China" would somehow gut the land of its culture and heritage while propping up a Westernized facsimile in its place should rest easy. It seems that the faith is spreading through this nation in a very distinctly Chinese way.

God's Work in China Prospers.......2006-04-11

Aikman turns a reporters eye to a careful analysis of the incredible move of God in Mainland China over the past 30 years. Three significant movements are identified and explored -- the Underground Church -- the Revival within the Three Self Church -- and the unusual influence of Christian scholars in Chinese culture. Captivating reading -- but apparently the naming of names and inclusion of pictures of famous Christians in China has led to some increased persecution.

Aikman's assertion that some day the critical mass of Christianity will reach the tipping point and bring sweeping social change has proven to be an embarassment to the government, And if there is one thing the government of China won't stand for, it's being embarrassed. Read it with discretion.

Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power.(Book Review): An article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research

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Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power.(Book Review): An article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research
Janet Carroll
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