When Magic Fails

October 2021 Feature Arthur Clarke, the British futurist who co-wrote the 2001: A Space Odyssey film, once remarked that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” (a formulation now known as “Clarke’s Third Law”). Writing in 1973, Clarke...

On Racial Harmony

October 2021 Pulse In his National Day Rally this year, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong devoted about a third of his speech to the topic of race and religion, citing recent incidents of racial tension in Singapore. The Prime Minister also announced that a new law in...

Religious Life in Modern Plural Societies

October 2021 Special Article This essay is a slightly revised version of an address I gave at an international conference on ‘The Future of Faith: Religious Values in a Plural World’ on 7 November 2018, organised by MUIS in celebration of its 50th anniversary. Prime...

The challenge of Agape

October 2021 Credo In the first epistle of John, we find one of the most profound statements about God in the whole of Scripture: “God is love” (4:8). Love is the very essence of God. Love sums up His whole being. Love is what God immutably is. This assertion is...