Suicide via Zoom

October 2020 Pulse The restrictions imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, including the paralysing lockdown mandated by countries around the world, have exponentially increased our dependence on technology. Board meetings, concerts, seminars, lectures, cooking and...

The Ethics of Human Challenge Studies

October 2020 Pulse The Covid-19 pandemic, which emerged suddenly late last year, is still ravaging many countries in the world, bringing in its wake not only unprecedented disruptions to their economies, but sadly also the loss of many lives. As I write this article,...

The Poor You Will always Have: A Reflection on Poverty

October 2020 Feature In her book, This is What Inequality Looks Like (Singapore: Ethos Books, 2018), the sociologist Teo You Yenn gauges that ‘roughly a fifth of the resident population of Singapore could be defined as poor.’ This estimate presenting a high proportion...

Ars Moriendi: On Dying Faithfully

October 2020 Special Article NOTE: This essay is a revised version of a talk that I gave at a workshop on Issues at Life’s End organised by the Anglican Diocese of Singapore in March 2019. In 1976, the Christian writer and apologist Francis Shaeffer published his...