by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 15, 2016 | Pulse
August 2016 Pulse In November 2010, Fr. Christian Mbusa Bakulene and a parish worker were walking to St. John the Baptist Church in Kanyabayonga in the province of North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of Congo, when two armed men in combat fatigue stopped them and...
by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 1, 2016 | Pulse
August 2016 Pulse In his profound study on symbols and the sacred, the Catholic religious philosopher Louis Dupré observes that for the longest stretch of human history art and religion are inseparable. Changes in cultural sensibilities, however, have caused the two...
by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 1, 2016 | Credo
August 2016 Credo The Christian faith is premised on the belief that since God has revealed himself, the Church as the recipient of this divine self-disclosure is able to say something true about him. Put differently, Christians believe that their speech about God –...
by Dr Greg Clarke | Aug 1, 2016 | Feature
August 2016 Feature Article When we speak of ‘culture’, what do we mean? It is a notoriously slippery term, especially so when an Australian is writing for an unseen global readership! Culture can be ‘your culture’, ‘my culture’ or ‘our culture’. It can be as broad or...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 18, 2016 | Pulse
July 2016 Pulse In June 2011, I wrote an article for The Straits Times on multiculturalism in Singapore at the invitation of the The United Nations Alliance of Civilisation. In the article, I argued that the Government’s approach has succeeded in fostering social...
