At the beginning of September I got the opportunity to attend Oxford In Asia, which was a three day conference on apologetics run by Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. This was a very stimulating time of discussion, learning and networking. However, probably the most significant outcome for me was the realization of how much of our apologetics misses the Chinese mind. There were sessions critiquing Western philosophy from a Biblical viewpoint, and one session, which was entitled as looking at the Eastern view, however, the only worldview that was engaged was the Indian pantheist worldview. I knew that China had a rich history of philosophy from such schools as Confucianism and Taoism and was surprised and disappointed that these were not touched at all, especially as this was a conference situated in Hong Kong, to train Hong Kong Christians. As a result, I decided that I need to learn about Hong Kong philosophy and thought and maybe I need to do a bit more of the hard work of finding out how the Chinese mind relates to Christian thought. To start off with a bought a book called A Short History of Chinese Philosophy and in the introduction of the book it mentioned how “Chinese philosophers were accustomed to express themselves in the form of aphorisms, apothegms, or allusions and illustrations.” My mind straight away turned to the Hebrew wisdom literature such as Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, and even Jesus’ teaching is more similar to this sort of teaching that the propositional arguments found in the classical Greek philosophy, which has formed the basis of much of the western approach to philosophy. In the process of reading I have also learned some of the reasons for the attitudes that my colleagues in Hong Kong have, that had previously been a mystery to me. This is going to be an area where I am going to have to continue to learn so that I can better communicate the gospel and disciple Hong Kong students.