by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 20, 2017 | Pulse
March 2017 Pulse After a closed-door meeting with 60 Madrasah students in March this year, Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam spoke to the press about the dangers that Islamophobia poses to the social fabric of Singapore. The origin of the term “Islamophobia”...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 6, 2017 | Pulse
March 2017 Pulse One of the most puzzling questions that continue to plague philosophers of mind is the relationship between mind and body. In a philosophical ethos where physicalist accounts of reality seem to be the new orthodoxy, phenomena such as consciousness...
by Dr Kwa Kiem-Kiok | Mar 6, 2017 | Feature
March 2017 Feature Article Now that I am middle-aged, I am more acutely aware of my physical body. There are some things I cannot do anymore, like stay up late, my knees hurt especially when walking down stairs, and I put on weight easily. When I was younger I was...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 6, 2017 | Credo
March 2017 Credo ‘They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but you are the same, and your years have no end’ (Psalm 102:25-26). So writes the Psalmist, as he reflects on...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 20, 2017 | Pulse
February 2017 Pulse In 2002, the Washington Post Magazine published a story of an American lesbian couple, Sharon Duchesneau and Candy McCullough – both of whom are deaf – who had deliberately chosen to have a deaf baby. A friend of theirs, with five generations of...
