by Dr Tan See Seng | Apr 1, 2019 | Feature
April 2019 Feature Are member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) accountable actors that care and provide for their own peoples and societies? Do they conduct themselves in ways that reflect a felt sense of obligation toward their...
by Gilbert Lok | Mar 4, 2019 | Feature
March 2019 Feature This book, as the author himself notes, draws its title from the Twenty-Third Psalm: “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil”. Appropriately, this slim, readable volume does not merely address fears of ageing or...
by Dr Leow Theng Huat | Feb 4, 2019 | Feature
In recent years, I have had the opportunity to engage in several inter-faith activities, often as a representative of the National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS). A few well-meaning Christians have privately expressed to me the discomfort they feel: Was I...
by Dr Phil Chan | Jan 7, 2019 | Feature
Carl Sagan once mentioned that “Science is more than a body of knowledge”. In Sagan’s view, science is a way of thinking by humans, a way of sceptically interrogating the Universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. We can think of science as a process...
by Dr Andrew Peh | Dec 3, 2018 | Feature
December 2018 Feature Snorkelling off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumbawa in 2016, nature photographer, Justin Hofman, snapped a picture of a tiny seahorse latching on to a cotton swab, which was to bring to the world’s attention a situation that we have...
by Rev Dr Jimmy Tan | Nov 5, 2018 | Feature
November 2018 Feature During the mid-autumn festival, my sister-in-law received a box of mooncakes from a property developer who was constructing a sky-scrapper office building right beside her apartment complex. Instead of going over the moon with the gift, she filed...
