# Roundup: China, secularism, John Stott

> For the first time, China’s illegal underground churches, whose members are estimated in the tens of millions, are mounting a unified and increasingly organized push for legal recognition.

29 July 2011 · News

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## [China’s banned churches defy regime](https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304567604576451913744126214.html)

For the first time, China’s illegal underground churches, whose members are estimated in the tens of millions, are mounting a unified and increasingly organized push for legal recognition. The government, fearing that faith in God will soon subvert faith in the party, is responding with a stepped up campaign against the churches and the networks uniting them.

## [Spirit levels](https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=416915&c=1)

Survey evidence suggests that a majority of people, whether religious or not, are pro-secular.

## [Has there been a present-day return to secularism?](https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=416916&c=1)

It all depends on what you mean by religion.

## [Who is John Stott?](https://www.christianpost.com/news/who-is-john-stott-52970/)

If evangelicals could elect a pope, “Stott is the person they would likely choose.”

## [We shall not stop at evangelism](https://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/atheologies/4939/we_shall_not_stop_at_evangelism%3A_remembering_evangelical_john_r._w._stott/)

Remembering evangelical John R. W. Stott.