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Statement by the National Council of Churches of Singapore on 21 December 2025
December 21, 2025 | By : ETHOS Institute
The National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) is deeply concerned by the incident on 21 December at the St Joseph’s Church in Bukit Timah, where a suspicious parcel was found on church premises. We are grateful that thorough checks by the Singapore Police Force and specialist units have confirmed . . . . Continue Reading »
SPECIAL ARTICLES
Astrotheology
March 2, 2026 | By : Dr Roland ChiaIn 1995, Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz announced that they had discovered a planet orbiting another star, 51 Pegasi, like our own (1) – an epochal moment indeed in modern science. Since then, the number of ‘exoplanets’ has grown steadily. On 17 April 2014, the Kepler Space Telescope announced the ....Continue Reading »
Forgotten Foundations: Christianity and Modernity’s Amnesia
November 3, 2025 | By : Dr Roland ChiaThis lecture was delivered at a Christian Apologetics Seminar organised by Journey GKYSG on 11 October 2025 at the Bible House. In recent decades, Christianity has been subjected to intense scrutiny and criticism, especially from Western academics and writers. Early in our century, there emerged a new perspective dubbed the ....Continue Reading »
What is the New Apostolic Reformation?
September 28, 2025 | By : Dr Roland ChiaIn 1999, an international group of apostles gathered in Singapore in what was to be a historic meeting. For it was at this meeting that the International Coalition of Apostles (ICA) was formed. According to its website, the goal of ICA is to ‘advance the Kingdom of God more rapidly ....Continue Reading »
Feature
The Devil Wears Prada, Should You?
June 1, 2026 | By : Kjelti Koh
Our current discussions on the place of art and aesthetics in theology and Christian living tends to stop at art forms like music, poetry or even dance. But it is also worth reflecting on the intersections of faith and fashion, even if for many of us, our fashion sense stops . . . . Continue Reading »
Pulse
Christian Zionism: A Biblical and Theological Critique
June 1, 2026 | By : Dr Roland Chia
In an interview with prominent right-wing American commentator Tucker Carlson, Mike Huckabee, United States Ambassador to Israel, suggested that Israel has a God-given right to land stretching from the Euphrates to the Nile, which would include Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and parts of Saudi Arabia. This statement by Huckabee, a self-professed . . . . Continue Reading »
Interrogating Constructivism
May 18, 2026 | By : Dr Roland Chia
The era in which we inhabit, which is frequently labelled as postmodern, has generated many ideas that must be subjected to close examination and evaluation. One of the most important of these – if not the most important – is its epistemology, the study of how we know things, which . . . . Continue Reading »
Dying Faithfully: A Christian Perspective on Life’s End
May 4, 2026 | By : Dr Roland Chia
This article is based on a presentation delivered by Dr Roland Chia at the Christian Bioethics Symposium held on 18 April 2026, organised by the Bandung Theological Seminary and the Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of Indonesia. In June 2025, the Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom voted . . . . Continue Reading »
Credo
Whatever happened to sin?
June 1, 2026 | By : Dr Roland Chia
It is said that the birth of the modern and postmodern era has resulted in the demise of many concepts and ideals that were once cherished. While this phenomenon is witnessed in many aspects of culture, it is arguably most discernible in the realm of morality. Ideas such as moral . . . . Continue Reading »
Bonhoeffer On Spiritual Community
May 18, 2026 | By : Rev Christopher Chan
Spiritual community is an essential component of the Christian life. Few have articulated their thoughts on this subject as incisively as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and here we will consider some of his reflections in Life Together, his treatise on Christian community. Bonhoeffer provides us with a helpful starting point when he . . . . Continue Reading »
More Than Human
May 4, 2026 | By : Dr Roland Chia
In a secular (and some might add post-Christian) culture, where the Christian vision of the future has been set aside, various imagined futures have emerged, drawing their inspiration from a scientific ethos. One familiar example is the vision of a classless society sketched out by Karl Marx in Das Capital . . . . Continue Reading »
Videos
Check out the videos for 2025!
August 1, 2025 | By : ETHOS Institute
Check out the latest available videos at ethosinstitute.sg/videos or click here! Check out the videos for the past events in the archives here.
Videos for ETHOS Annual Conference 2021: The Triune God are now up!
October 26, 2021 | By : ETHOS Institute
To watch the videos for this event, please go to ethosinstitute.sg/videos or click here!
Videos for ETHOS Conversation 2021: Religion and Politics in Singapore are now up!
May 3, 2021 | By : ETHOS Institute
To watch the videos for this event, please go to ethosinstitute.sg/videos or click here. Please click here to read the speech by Mr K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law.
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