The other day I sat down with Pastor Doug Wilson in Moscow, Idaho to have a conversation on all things China. I was excited to get his perspective, since he has personally lived through much of China’s modern communist history. I was not disappointed.

In our 30+ minute conversation, we touched on many topics including the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s Great Famine, Doug’s Submarine Adventures with a Taiwanese crew, the China Legacies of Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, the Tiananmen Square massacre (and revival), China’s modern-day revival, C.S. Lewis’s 1946 China optimism vs. Doug’s (short-term) pessimism, Hebrews 13:3 and how to pray for the persecuted, and PrayforChina.us’s helpful strategy!

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Feel free to send any notes or comments via email @ bfwesten at gmail dot com

Find much more about our work in Asia, including my missionary biographies, at PrayGiveGo.us!

Frank Dikotter (Dutch, not German) on China

https://www.frankdikotter.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Maos-Great-Famine-Devastating-Catastrophe/dp/1408886367

Jimmy Carter’s Complicated China Legacy

https://www.crosspoliticnews.com/news/jimmy-carters-complicated-china-legacy

The C.S. Lewis China Letters

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/the-cs-lewis-china-letters

C.S. Lewis, Burnt Marshwiggle, and the Brainwashing of Richard Wurmbrand

https://chinacall.substack.com/p/cs-lewis-burnt-marshwiggle-and-the

The NBA, LeBron James, and China

https://www.crosspoliticnews.com/news/nba-back-in-bed-with-china

Pray for China places of the week (Follow @chinaadventures for daily updates)

https://open.substack.com/pub/chinacall/p/pray-for-china-oct-13-19-2025

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Luke 10, verse 2, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Talk again soon!