by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 6, 2020 | Pulse
April 2020 Pulse On 31 December 2019, Wuhan, the largest metropolitan region in China’s Hubei province reported an outbreak of cases of people who have become ill with an inexplicable respiratory infection (‘pneumonia of unknown aetiology’). Sequencing reveals that...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 16, 2020 | Pulse
March 2020 Pulse For many years now, “leadership” has been the buzzword both in the Church and in secular society. But this ubiquitous “L” word has, of late, become reduced to superficial “jump on the bandwagon” jargon-worn and overused. Christian books and articles...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 2, 2020 | Pulse
March 2020 Pulse During the Easter service of the Orthodox Church, the ‘Troparion’ is sung after the celebrant announces the resurrection of Christ at the door of the church and intones the blessing to the Holy Trinity. Incorporating Psalm 68, the Church declares: Let...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 17, 2020 | Pulse
February 2020 Pulse In the second century, pagans in the Greco-Roman world accused Christians of atheism, cannibalism, and incest. Christians were accused of atheism partly because they refused to worship the Roman gods, and partly because they had no shrines or...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 3, 2020 | Pulse
February 2020 Pulse In his epistle to the Christians in Rome, the apostle Paul instructs his readers to submit to the governing authorities. ‘Let every person be subject to the governing authorities’, he writes, because ‘there is no authority except from God and those...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 20, 2020 | Pulse
January 2020 Pulse In the spring of 2017, MIT Technology Review reported that a team of scientists from the University of Michigan discovered that they had made an embryo-like entity from human embryonic stem cells (ESCs). The team was attempting to make organoids –...
