Zoophilia

Jan 2015 Pulse In a remote village in Borneo, men lined up in a brothel to pay for sex with a prostitute called Pony. What is particularly disturbing is that Pony is a female Orangutan that has been captured, shaved, chained to a mattress and used as a sex slave. The...

Caring for Our Ill Neighbour

January 2015 Feature Article Many people have heard the familiar story about the Good Samaritan that Jesus told in answer to the lawyer’s question: “Who is my neighbour?” It was in the context of the Great Commandment that Jesus declared – to love God and to love our...

Extra Terrestrials

Jan 2015 Pulse While searching for planets in the constellation Draco, researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics found a giant Earth-like planet with a diameter of nearly 28,900 km – more than twice the size of planet Earth. Using NASA’s Kepler...

Patriotism in perspective

In what ways can nationalism or patriotism become idolatrous? MANY PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCIOLOGISTS have observed that the rise of modern secularism has not erased man’s need for religion. Although it is perfectly true to say that modern man has by and large lost faith...