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National Council of Churches of Singapore's Statements
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NCCS issued a response to the MHA Survey on Capital Punishment. Click here to read the statement.
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NCCS issued a letter to the National Tourism Board on Christmas Light-Up along Orchard Road. Click here to read the letter.
Snorkelling off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumbawa in 2016, nature photographer, Justin Hofman, snapped a picture of a tiny seahorse latching on to a cotton swab, which was to bring to the world’s attention a situation that we have lived with in tacit complicity. The photograph shared on Instagram was telling of the pervasive and pernicious problem of plastic pollution in our urban contexts, in our cities, in our waterways and in our oceans.
Two recent documentaries that highlight this prevalent plastic problem are Plastic Paradise and A Plastic Ocean. In a study that was featured in the Guardian, Damian Carrington wrote: “The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study. Yet since the dawn of civilisation, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants...” I fear that our part in this plastic problem will affect even more species and will ultimately hurt ourselves.
December 2018 Credo
Different But Equal
By Dr Roland Chia
In an article in the 1991 issue of Christianity Today entitled, ‘Let’s Stop Making Women Presbyters’, evangelical theologian and leader J. I. Packer wrote: ‘Presbyters are set apart for a role of authoritative pastoral leadership. But this role is for manly men rather than womanly women, according to the creation pattern that redemption restores’.
This view, which subordinates the woman to the man, is underscored by the Reformed evangelical preacher John Piper in a book he edited with theologian Wayne Grudem entitled, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism.
December 2018 Pulse
Via Dolorosa
By Dr Roland Chia
In February 2015, Gay Byrne, host of the Irish religious television programme The Meaning of Life, asked militant atheist Stephen Fry what he would say to God if he found himself standing before Him at the Pearly Gates.
Fry replied with his characteristic sting: “Bone cancer in children: what’s that about?” He then proceeded with a lengthy diatribe on how evil must be the God who would so cruelly inflict such terrible suffering on little innocent children.
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