“Everything you can say about China is true … somewhere in China!” Such was the insight offered by my 90-year-old friend, Rosa, who with her sister, the late Ruth Graham Bell (Billy Graham’s wife), was raised in China. The observation is timely and useful as the Olympics are upon us and we Westerners are trying to understand the enigma that is China. Nowhere are words more important, and the Chinese more enigmatic, than on the issue of religion and the Bible.

(Dick Staub is the author of “The Culturally Savvy Christian” and the host of The Kindlings Muse (http://www.thekindlings.com). His blog can be read at www.dickstaub.com)