Earning Merit by Climbing an Endless Stairway in China

Taishan is the ancient sacred mountain in Shangdong Province. Ancient Chinese believed that mountains had spiritual significance, like Sinai and Mount Olympus in the West. Taishan is the most important of the sacred Chinese mountains.

My Class of Seventh and Eighth Graders on Mount Taishan. Photo by Beverly.

My wife and I were the first American teachers brought in to work in the People’s Republic of China in 1983. We served a very small…