The Moral Status of the iBlastoid

April 2021 Pulse Researchers have successfully developed and grown model versions of very early human embryos or blastocyst by ‘re-programming’ stem cells taken from adults. Scientists believe that this very significant breakthrough would enable them to study the...

What Makes Us Human?

April 2021 Credo In our society, being human has been interpreted and explained in various ways, ranging from the effects of marketing advertisements, comedy-drama TV series, to altruistic acts of charity. To add one more perspective, in chemical terms, a human body...

Christus Victor

April 2021 Credo Subtitle note: “Soundings” is a series of essays that, like the waves of a sonogram, explore issues in society, culture and the church in light of the Gospel and Christian understanding. Last September, my wife and I visited for the first time the...

Michael Polanyi on Science as Personal Knowledge

April 2021 Feature Conventional wisdom would like us to believe that science has triumphed over Christianity because science relies on objective knowledge while Christianity relies on blind faith based on ecclesiastical authority. In solving the recalcitrant problems...