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...
by Dr Fong Choon Sam | Jun 6, 2017 | Feature
June 2017 Feature Public discourse on issues concerning immigration and foreign workers is often carried out within the framework of “human rights,” “national interests,” and “Asian values,” with religious values having a lesser...
by Rev. Billy Kristanto | May 2, 2017 | Feature
May 2017 Feature In February 2016, Singapore’s Catholic archbishop Goh urged his fellow Catholics to differentiate “pseudo arts” from “authentic arts that lead us to God.” The criticism was directed toward the “Queen of Pop”, Madonna. In everyday discourse, the term...
