<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/spring-2011/offering-hopeful-faith-and-helpful-hands-japan.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Offering Hopeful Faith and Helpful Hands in Japan</title><excerpt>In the violent March 2011 earthquake, the island of Japan shifted eight feet to the east. Jonathan Wilson ’89 thinks it may have shifted theologically as well. “There is a new openness to the gospel here,” he says. “Everything the Japanese people relied on has been stripped away, and they are seeking hope. We’ve seen idols thrown on trash heaps and a new realization that Christians are the ones coming to help.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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