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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 Challenge of Engaging with Popular Culture
May 4, 2026 | By : Rev Christopher Chan
Popular culture is inescapable, and we encounter it on a daily basis. Because much of its messaging contradicts biblical teaching, many Christians believe that it should be rejected or shunned. The widespread influence of the mass media has often been blamed for the moral decline of society, and we might . . . . Continue Reading »
Pulse
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 »
Transhumanism and Eugenics
April 20, 2026 | By : Dr Roland Chia
One of the most worrying consequences of the rise and ever-increasing influence of the movement called transhumanism is that it might usher in a new eugenics. The word ‘eugenics’ transports us to a very dark period in our recent history, and to the persecutory policies of the Nazis which led . . . . Continue Reading »
Rightly Dividing the Word?: Prophetic Misreading and the Celebration of Violence
April 13, 2026 | By : ETHOS Institute
America’s and Israel’s war with Iran has caused excitement among some evangelical Christians for all the wrong reasons. The conflict has led them to believe that biblical end-time prophecies are being fulfilled right before their eyes. John Hagee, the founder of Christians United for Israel, described the war as part . . . . Continue Reading »
Credo
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 »
Christological Origins of Paul’s Gospel
April 20, 2026 | By : Dr Ng Kam Weng
I. Doubts About the Authenticity of Paul’s Teachings A common objection raised by critics of Christianity is that the apostle Paul distorted the teachings of Jesus and the apostles of the early Jewish-Christian community by importing ideas from the Greco-Roman mystery religions. These included ideas like a dying and rising . . . . Continue Reading »
Our Identity in Christ
April 6, 2026 | By : Dr Roland Chia
Standfirst: We live in a culture which, despite its obsessive preoccupation with identity, is suffering from an acute case of identity crisis. In this chaos and confusion about identities that plague the postmodern world, how are Christians to think of their own identity? The postmodern sensibility, with its aversion to . . . . Continue Reading »
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August 1, 2025 | By : ETHOS Institute
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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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