Years ago, my dad introduced me to her work: Unholy Alliance: The Dangers of Mixing Pop Psychology with Christian Truth. I found it an important work because it came at a time when many Christian leaders (i.e. Serena Lin) opened their arms to modern psychology, which basically rejects the notion of sin, resulting in a very confused understanding of biblical counseling. Lois Chan critically hammered such community of scholars.
Then I friended her on Facebook. And find that she vehemently called out against all Christian cults - Eastern Lightning (东方闪电/全能神), Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.
Lately I'm friended by many who appear to be from the 全能神 cults, probably indirectly through certain Facebook friends I have (i.e. Lois Chan, etc.) who probably found me on Facebook via connections with STEMI, other Christian friends. They are all Chinese and seem to be all dwelling in Italy. They have these media that display a specific style: backgrounds are full of bright blue, green, yellow trees, landscapes or skies. And the people in the videos/pictures are always smiling and dancing. One look, I thought - Eastern Lightning Cult. Just like the books by Watchtower, one look at the artworks and I say: Jovah's Witnesses.
However, I looked at the content of what they're preaching. Something's definitely lacking - the need to repent and the emphasis of Trinity. However, the prominent signs of the difference of this cult is also missing. i.e. the female Jesus. It would seem that they are aware of their cult status and are trying to change or hide their differences. Mormons did that, 7-day Adventists did that.
But I'm still not well acquainted with this cult. So I finally decided to seek some info. Lois Chan was the first to pop up in my mind. I typed a couple of paragraphs and sent it to her timeline, but it bounced back saying that she's disabled her timeline posts by others, wasted my time, bad Facebook design. I gave up. But then these people keep coming, so I decided to private message her about it, as shown below:
Instead of saying she's busy, which I think was understandably expected, she probably just skipped to the last part and responded as shown above before she right away unfriended and blocked me. I've tried to get some of her Facebook friends to talk to her about it, to no avail.
Here's some take away I get from this misunderstanding from Lois Chan:
- She's only good at research. But that's about it. I wouldn't go as far as Alex calling her diploma fake. However, I would trust her on Christian Counselling. I would only use her for information pertaining to that. Like the what and the who or maybe the why. But definitely not the how. That is, if she still writes any books, since asking her directly proves to be somewhat of an obstacle.
- There is a kind of shallowness in her I must take into account. Such as, jumping too quickly to conclusion. This is also apparent in her view against infant baptism, apologetics, etc.
- Last but not least, for someone who does a lot of work in counselling, she sure has problem doing it. If she had cared a little, she wouldn't have made such mistake in her conversation with me. So, this concludes that her counselling work is mainly on the business side of things. Zero skill in accountability of responsibility, fellowship, etc.
- Of course, there's one more possibility, that she doesn't know English. But given the fact that her book "Unholy Alliance" was in English, I just assumed otherwise. And it would really have had been on her to tell me if she does not understand English.