by Dr Lim K Tham | Mar 4, 2024 | Feature
Feature 4 March 2024 Introduction In the book of Job, the righteous Job observes that certain people are only interested in religion if they can gain some benefit for themselves. He is perplexed by their frame of mind as reflected in these lines: Yet they say to God,...
by Adriel Yeo | Feb 5, 2024 | Feature
Feature 5 February 2024 Introduction While 31 October is often associated with Halloween, for many Christians across the world a much more momentous event is normally observed. I am, of course, referring to Reformation Day. Reformation Day commemorates the event on 31...
by Bishop Emeritus Dr Robert M. Solomon | Jan 1, 2024 | Feature
Feature 1 January 2024 The acronym CRISPR (pronounced Crisper) in full is a mouthful: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. In simple terms, it has to do with editing DNA using RNA and Cas9 (enzyme), a technique discovered from studying how...
by Darius Lee | Dec 4, 2023 | Feature
Feature 4 December 2023 The science fiction film series Avatar features a fascinating concept, where people are able to connect through technology to remotely pilot living, breathing alien bodies and interact with others. The second film takes the concept a step...
by Dr Leow Theng Huat | Nov 6, 2023 | Feature
Feature 6 November 2023 The meaning of words depends on the framework they are embedded in. This framework forms a kind of reality in which these words exist and from which they draw their meaning. Take, for example, the word “ball”. Within the game of golf, it refers...
by Lai Wei Yen | Oct 2, 2023 | Feature
Feature 2 October 2023 The Darkness That We Live In On 7 June 2023, BBC News published an article entitled “Catching the Men Who Sell Subway Groping Videos”. This article, along with a 50-minute documentary (“Catching a Pervert: Sexual Assault for Sale”), caused quite...