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What is Critical Social Justice?: An Anatomy of an Ideology

What is Critical Social Justice? An Anatomy of an Ideology This paper was presented at the TTC Faculty Colloquium on 26 July 2024 In recent decades, a new ideology has emerged which radically distorts received notions of justice which have their roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition. This new understanding of ....Continue Reading »

The New Antinomianism: A Critique of the New Theology of Grace

The version of this paper was presented at a Clergy Meeting of the Anglican Diocese in Singapore in 2014. I would like to thank Bishop Rennis Poniah for inviting me to speak on this topic. The same material was also presented at a Conference organised by the Chinese Annual Conference ....Continue Reading »

Digital Immortality? Mind Uploading and the quest for everlasting life

Digital Immortality? Mind Uploading and the quest for everlasting life ¿Inmortalidad digital? La transferencia mental y la búsqueda de la vida eterna   Abstract The quest for immortality is probably as old as humankind itself. In recent decades a group of scientists and futurists who describe themselves as transhumanists has ....Continue Reading »

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GOD’S “NO!”

Injustice is a Reality The human being can live under very severe conditions. But if there is something we find almost impossible to bear, it is injustice. When we look at situations where the evil prosper and the good suffer, something inside screams, “No!” Life, however, teaches us that injustice . . . . Continue Reading »

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The Far Right’s Two Christianities

In July 2011, my wife, Serene, and I were in Norway to visit an old friend, a retired philosophy professor, who lives in Stavanger, and to spend some time in Oslo, the country’s capital. In the afternoon of 22 July, as we were just stepping out of a cake shop . . . . Continue Reading »

What’s Wrong with the Religious Far-Right?

On September 2, 2024, CNN reported that Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era. Indeed, across Europe there has been an unprecedented ascendency of far-right movements with radical-right political parties making significant gains in Parliament elections. . . . . Continue Reading »

A Call for Just Peace: The Middle East Conflict – One Year On

Last November, I published an article titled ‘Hamas-Israel War: A Clarion Call for Moral Clarity’, where I urged that our responses to the then-unfolding conflict between Israel and Hamas be grounded in a clear moral compass (https://ethosinstitute.sg/hamas-israel-war-a-clarion-call-for-moral-clarity/). A year later, I write again, this time calling for a just peace . . . . Continue Reading »

Credo


A healthy theology of healing

One of the most influential voices in the Word of Faith Movement is that of the late Kenneth Hagin, who has been described as the father of the movement. In his 1982 book, Must Christians Suffer?, Hagin presents his clearest teaching on the relationship between Christians and sickness based on . . . . Continue Reading »

The Right Meaning from the Wrong Text?

At the lowest ebb of writer and theologian Christopher Yuan’s life, when he had just received the shocking news of being tested positive for HIV while serving his jail sentence, Christopher came across a note that someone had scribbled on the ceiling of his bunk bed. The note read: “If . . . . Continue Reading »

The Christmas hymn with no manger, angels or shepherds

One of Charles Wesley's most endearing Christmas hymns is surely "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus", which was first published in Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord in 1745. The two stanzas of the hymn—comprising eight lines each—are replete with scriptural allusions. They include the notion of God as the . . . . Continue Reading »

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Videos for ETHOS Annual Conference 2021: The Triune God are now up!

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Videos for ETHOS Conversation 2021: Religion and Politics in Singapore are now up!

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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