by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 19, 2017 | Pulse
June 2017 Pulse Last November, Oxford Dictionaries declared “post-truth” as the international word for the year 2016. So significant is this expression that Oxford Dictionaries’ Casper Grathwohl even said it could become “one of the defining words of our time”....
by Dr Philip Satterthwaite | Jun 19, 2017 | Credo
June 2017 Credo The Book of Ruth begins: ‘In the days when the judges ruled…’. But the events it describes are very different from those described in Judges. Bethlehem, where most of the book is set, seems to have been an oasis of goodness within Israel during this...
by Dr Fong Choon Sam | Jun 6, 2017 | Feature
June 2017 Feature Public discourse on issues concerning immigration and foreign workers is often carried out within the framework of “human rights,” “national interests,” and “Asian values,” with religious values having a lesser...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 5, 2017 | Pulse
June 2017 Pulse Last year, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced that the government is increasing funding for research in the social sciences and humanities in Singapore by 45 percent. ‘Our region today is a fascinating and fertile ground for study’,...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 5, 2017 | Credo
June 2017 Credo This article is written in response to a request by one of the visitors of the Ethos Institute website. It has to do with the Christian’s experience of God. What do Christians mean when they say that they have a personal knowledge and experience of...