by Dr Ng Kam Weng | Dec 4, 2017 | Feature
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...
by Bishop Emeritus Robert Solomon | Nov 6, 2017 | Feature
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...
by Michael Fischer | Oct 2, 2017 | Feature
October 2017 Feature For the seventh year in a row, Asia Bibi, a Christian mother, has spent Christmas in a dark and dingy prison cell in Pakistan. Isolated from her husband and five children, she has been on death row for allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad...
by Dr Philip Satterthwaite | Sep 4, 2017 | Feature
September 2017 Feature This brief essay attempts to describe a phenomenon which seems to be fairly widespread in the churches of Singapore. It represents an outsider perspective: I am a British citizen and PR who has lived in Singapore for 18 years. It should be read...
by Keith Leong | Aug 7, 2017 | Feature
August 2017 Feature The arrest of Galileo Galilei for proposing a sun-centered model of the universe despite being told not to has been cited as an embarrassing example of the inevitable conflict between the forward-looking nature of science and regressive character...
by Dr Thomas Harvey | Jul 3, 2017 | Feature
July 2017 Feature I know, O Lord, that the way of humankind is not in themselves, that it is not in the person who walks to direct their steps. Jeremiah 10:23[i] As a young man, I worked as a foreman on a US National Forest Service fire-crew in the Cascade Mountain...