2024

• Digital Immortality?: Mind Uploading and the quest for everlasting life, 1 January 2024
• The New Antinomianism: A Critique of the New Theology of Grace, 3 June 2024
• What is Critical Social Justice? An Anatomy of an Ideology, 1 August 2024

2023

• The Ethics of Mitochondrial Replacement Technology, 4 January 2023
• Watchful and Steadfast: Christian Leadership in Uncertain Times, 26 June 2023

2022

• A Different Gospel: A Critique of the Prosperity Gospel, 3 January 2022
• Neuroscience and Ethics, 4 April 2022
• What is the New Apostolic Reformation?, 4 July 2022
• Christian Witness in the Public Square: Retrospection and Prospection, 3 October 2022

2021

• Religious Life in Modern Plural Societies, 4 October 2021
• Science and Christianity, 5 July 2021
• An Architecture of Peace Pope Francis on Universal Fraternity, 5 April 2021
• Biomedical Ethics: A Christian Perspective, 4 January 2021

2020

• Ars Moriendi: On Dying Faithfully, 5 October 2020
• Sharing God’s Earth: A Christian Vision of the Environment, Justice and Human Flourishing, 6 July 2020
• Via Modem: Religion in the Digital Age, 3 January 2020

2019

• Postmodernism and the Church, 1 October 2019

2017

• Theology and Disability. Workshop oh Disability,  24 February 2017

2016

• Biological Basis for Homosexuality: A Brief Look at the Evidence, ETHOS Conference: Human Sexuality, Marriage & the Church,  6 July 2016 

2015

• Unpardonable Sin. The Bible Speaks Today. February 2015.
• Transhumanism. The Bible Speaks Today. January 2015.

2014

• A Sense of Justice. The Bible Speaks Today. August 2014.
• Religion, Public Policy and Human Flourishing. Trumpet. August 2014.
• Easy Believism. The Bible Speaks Today. July 2014.
• What is Gnosticism? How Did the Early Christian Leaders Respond to Its Teachings? The Bible Speaks Today. July 2014.
• Godly Business. Word@Work. June 2014.
• Culture of Death. The Bible Speaks Today. June 2014.
• Tongues. The Bible Speaks Today. June 2014.
• Hating One’s Parents. The Bible Speaks Today. May 2014.
• Condoning Suicide. The Bible Speaks Today. April 2014.
• Having Faith in Faith? The Bible Speaks Today. April 2014.
• The Lord’s Supper. The Bible Speaks Today. April 2014.
• Did Christ Die Only for the Elect? The Bible Speaks Today. March 2014.
• Thinking about Disability. Word@Work. March 2014.
• Do Angels Exist? What Are They Like, and What is Their Role in God’s Plan? The Bible Speaks Today. February 2014.

2013

• Consumerism and the Christian. Word@Work. December 2013.
• Opting for Adoption. Word@Work. September 2013.
• Can Politics be Separated from Religion, According to the Christian Perspective? September 2013.
• The State. The Bible Speaks Today. August 2013.
• Prosperity Preaching. The Bible Speaks Today. July 2013.
• Gay Rights? The Bible Speaks Today. June 2013.
• Physician Assisted Suicide. The Bible Speaks Today. May 2013.
• The Sign of the Cross (Roman Catholics, Orthodox, Lutherans and Anglicans). The Bible Speaks Today. April 2013.
• Religion and Politics in Singapore_A Christian Perspective. Church and Society in Asia Today. Vol 16 No 1. April 2013.
• The Role of Government. Trumpet. April 2013.
• How Should Christians Engage in the Public Square? Word@Work. March 2013.
• The Wonders of Creation. The Bible Speaks Today. March 2013.
• Is Conditional Immortality A Credible Alternative to the Traditional Doctrine of Hell? The Bible Speaks Today. February 2013.
• Christian Public Engagement in Singapore: Retrospection and Prospection. Pre-publication version of the article for Engaging Society: The Christian In Tomorrow’s Singapore, ed. Michael Nai-Chiu Poon. Singapore: Trinity Theological College, 2013.

2012

• What do Christians mean when they say that the Bible is the Word of God? Word@Work. December 2012.
• On Marriage. The Bible Speaks Today. November 2012.
• God and the Victim. The Bible Speaks Today. October 2012.
• Engaging the Scriptures. The Bible Speaks Today. September 2012.
• Having Children. The Bible Speaks Today. August 2012.
• Economics and Ethics. The Bible Speaks Today. July 2012.
• Have Scientists Discovered the Gay Gene? Methodist Message. June 2012.
• The Dignity of Daily Work. Word@Work. June 2012.
• Archbishop Rowan Williams:_An Appreciation. Christian Post. March 2012.

2011

• Towards A Theology of Arts. Church and Society in Asia Today. Vol 14 No 2. August 2011.

2010

• Is Democracy the Best System of Government According to the Christian View? Methodist Message. December 2010.
• Whats Wrong with Human Rights Trumpet. December 2010.
• Church and State Support One Another with Their Distinctive Roles. Methodist Message. October 2010.
• Preserving Religious Peace in Multi-Religious Singapore. Methodist Message. June 2010.
• How Christians Can Contribute to Society. Methodist Message. April 2010.
• Every Christian Must Submit Himself to the Governing Authorities. Methodist Message. February 2010.

2009

• Secularism Asserting Its Superiority to the Religious Traditions. Methodist Message. December 2009.
• ‘Yes’ to Patriotism Which Accords Proper Honour to One’s Nation. Methodist Message. October 2009.
• Christians Engaged in the Public Square Must Be Humble and Civil. Methodist Message. August 2009.
• God and Money. Church and Society in Asia Today. Vol 12 No 2. August 2009.
• Science and the Christian Faith. Church and Society in Asia Today. Vol 15 No 2. August 2009.
• Surrogacy Violates the Christian Understanding of Marriage and Family. Methodist Message. May 2009.
• Human Rights Declaration Ideals Resonate with Christian Tenets. Methodist Message. April 2009.
• Christians Must Reflect on Meaning, Purpose of the Arts in Human Life. Methodist Message. March 2009.
• What is the Relationship between the Church and Israel? The Methodist Message. February 2009.
• Torture Blasphemes God Who Created Human Beings in His Own Image. Methodist Message. January 2009.

2008

• Inter-faith Dialogue is Part of Christians’ Social Responsibility. Methodist Message. December 2008.
• Be Involved in Affairs of the Economic Life. Methodist Message. November 2008.
• Should Christians Support the Legalisation of the Human Organ Market? Methodist Message. October 2008.
• Civil Obedience Part of Christian Discipleship. Methodist Message. September 2008.
• Christians Generally Maintain that Human Rights are Universal. Methodist Message. August 2008.
• Is There Scriptural Basis for the Doctrine of Purgatory? Methodist Message. May 2008.
• Discipleship of the Mind Trumpet. April 2008
• Should Christians Pray for the Dead? Methodist Message. March 2008.
• What Should be the Proper Way of Understanding the Relationship between Science and the Christian Faith? Methodist Message. January 2008.

2007

• There are Some Similarities between the Christian and Islamic Concepts of God, But We Can’t Conclude that Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God. Methodist Message. December 2007.
• Atheism Will Never Succeed in Undermining the Christian Faith. Methodist Message. November 2007.
• Are Romans Catholics and Orthodox Christians Disobeying the Second Commandment When They Use Images and Icons in Worship? Methodist Message. October 2007.
• What is Demon Possession? Can A Christian be Demon Possessed? Methodist Message. July 2007.
• ‘Abortion is Wilful Destruction of a Human Being’. Methodist Message. April 2007.
• It is Finished! Trumpet. April 2007
• Christians Do Not Hold that All Religions are the Same. Methodist Message. January 2007.

2006

• Dealing with the Subject of Evolution. Methodist Message. December 2006.
• Can Anyone Justify War from A Christian Perspective? Methodist Message. November 2006.
• Transexuality. Methodist Message. August 2006.
• What is Prophecy? And How Can We Discern If It’s from God? Methodist Message. June 2006.
• Should Christians Condone Euthanasia? Methodist Message. May 2006.
• The Success of a Hoax: The Da Vinci Code, Culture and The Church. Trumpet. April 2006.
• The ‘Signs of the End.’ Methodist Message. March 2006.
• Should Christians Support the Death Penalty? Methodist Message. February 2006.

2005

• Second Commandment Does Not Prohibit Use of Images in Worship. It Simply Warns Against Confounding These Images with God. Methodist Message. October 2005.
• Most Scientists Reject the One-Gene-One-Trait Theory As Naïve. Methodist Message. September 2005.
• Sabbath and the Lord’s Day Stress Lordship of God Over All Creation. What is the Relationship between the Jewish Sabbath and the Lord’s Day (Sunday)? Methodist Message. August 2005.
• Christians can Conclude that Bible ‘Does Not Prohibit Organ Donation, Transplantation’ Methodist Message. June 2005.
• Church Does Not Prohibit Abortion Under All Circumstances. Methodist Message. May 2005.
• A Life Deemed ‘Useless’ Trumpet. May 2005.
• Celebrating Easter With J. S. Bach Trumpet. February 2005.

NCCS Papers by Dr Roland Chia

• Mitochondrial Replacement Technology. National Council of Churches of Singapore. February 2015.
• Status of Children Bill – Response by NCCS. National Council of Churches of Singapore. July 2011.
• Neuroscience and Ethics. National Council of Churches of Singapore. January 2013.
• Social Egg Freezing. Ethical and Social Considerations. National Council of Churches of Singapore. November 2012.
• Ethics of Interspecies Research. National Council of Churches of Singapore. January 2012.

Conference Papers, Special Lectures and Others

• God, Language and Preaching, presented at Studia Homilectica Conference, Singapore, 2004.
• Biological Essentialism and The Person, in Beyond Determinism and Reductionism: Genetic Science and the Person. Edited by Mark Chan and Roland Chia. Australia: ATF
  Press, 2003.
• Mufti Letter to NCCS on the Lahore Bombing National Council of Churches of Singapore. March 2016.
• Theology and Disability, revised version of a talk organized by the Anglican Diocese of Singapore, February 2017.