A Rising New Incivility?

April 2018 Feature Preamble In contemporary society, a trend towards incivility seems to be rising. This article registers my observations about the shifts. I hope this article will invite many others to consider how we may pushback incivility for the sake of our...

The Urban Church and Creative Urbanism

March 2018 Feature Can the church help envision the cities of the future? The 21st Century world will be an urban world. The Asian Development Bank states in 2008 that over one billion people would have moved from the rural villages to the urban settings in Asia by...

Religious Tolerance and Limited State Bureaucracy

December 2017 Feature Article Religious tolerance is a tenuous legacy of democracy as state bureaucracy instinctively extends its power to regulate all aspects of the life of its citizens. As such, a moral citizenry needs to be motivated by cogent arguments in order...

One Vocabulary, Different Universes

November 2017 Feature It is increasingly common to hear or read words such as “exclusivism”, “inclusivism”, and “pluralism” in public discourse whether it is used by academics, activists or politicians. It is assumed that everyone is on the same page; thus the terms...