by Ethos Institute | Sep 7, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
In recent years, academics here have been arguing that Singapore has to revise its social compact due to rapidly changing circumstances, both at home and globally. Founded on strong fundamentals – individual responsibility and self-reliance, economic growth and jobs...
by Ethos Institute | Sep 7, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
‘It is finished’ is the sixth of the seven words of Christ on the cross. From the late eighteenth century, meditation on the Seven Last Words of Christ on the cross became a very popular form of devotion. In some churches today, the last words of Jesus are heard in...
by Ethos Institute | Sep 4, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
Many Christians are familiar with the Great Commandment recorded in Luke 10:27: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with your entire mind. Love your neighbour as yourself’. This Commandment urges believers...
by Ethos Institute | Sep 4, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
For more than a decade I have made it a point during the holy week to listen to all of the extant Passions of the brilliant Baroque composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, and also his magnificent Easter Oratorio on Resurrection Sunday. Not only was Bach a musical genius who...
by Ethos Institute | Sep 4, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
As I write this essay, a woman’s body is shutting down from starvation and dehydration because of the decision made by her husband and a court order issued by Florida judge, George Greer. Terri Schiavo collapsed on 25 February, 1990, when her heart stopped...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
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 to the privatisation of religion because of its...
