by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 3, 2020 | Pulse
August 2020 Pulse In an animated debate with Elon Mask at the three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in August 2019, Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba, insisted that artificial intelligence poses no threat to humanity. ‘Computers may be...
by Dr Lim K Tham | Jul 20, 2020 | Credo
July 2020 Credo The Prince of Wales caused quite a furore when he said that he would like to be known as the ‘Defender of Faith’ rather than the ‘Defender of the Faith’ when he is crowned King. He has since clarified that he will stick to the traditional path and take...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 20, 2020 | Pulse
July 2020 Pulse An expression that has appeared again and again in reports about measures mandated to contain the global coronavirus outbreak is ‘social distancing’. According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, social distancing (used interchangeably...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 6, 2020 | Special Articles
July 2020 Special Article This essay is a slightly revised version of a talk that I gave at the East Asia Region 2020 Electronic Pre-Assembly of the Council for World Mission on 2 April 2020. Let me begin with some words from Scripture. From the sixth chapter of...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 6, 2020 | Pulse
July 2020 Pulse On 7 June 2020, thousands gathered in Bristol to watch and cheer as the statue of Edward Colston, a 17th century slave trader, was torn from its plinth and thrown into the harbour in protest against racism. As Gurminder Bhambra of The New York Times...
