by Ethos Institute | Jan 29, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
How should Christians engage in the public square? AS SOCIETY BECOMES increasingly secular, religion is slowly edged towards the periphery of public life and reduced to a private experience without any social implications. The Christian faith is intrinsically opposed...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 29, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
How should Christians respond to surrogate motherhood? AMONG the various forms of artificial reproductive technologies surrogate motherhood is arguably the most controversial. A surrogate mother is a woman who carries a child for an infertile couple. There are...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 29, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
How should Christians think about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? DECEMBER 10, 2008 marked the 60th anniversary of the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is debatably the most important...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 29, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
How should Christians understand and view the arts? SINCE the Reformation in the 16th century, when leaders of the church destroyed statues and other works of art to stem out and prevent idolatry, Protestant Christianity has always been suspicious of the arts. It must...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 29, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
Should Christians ever condone torture? ACCORDING to the standard dictionary definition, torture is simply the act of deliberately inflicting pain by one person on another person. There are many ways in which this can be done: beatings, electric shocks, waterboarding,...
by Ethos Institute | Jan 29, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
IT IS IMPORTANT to state at the outset that the Christian faith neither provides an ethos for, nor does it have a stake in any form of political ideology or order, including democracy. Christianity is fundamentally concerned with justice and would support any...
