by Dr Roland Chia | Nov 6, 2023 | Pulse
Pulse 6 November 2023 According to an article published in 2022 in Politico, most Republicans support the declaration of the United States as a Christian nation. ‘Christian nationalism,’ write Stella Rouse and Shibley Telhami, ‘a belief that the United States was...
by Dr Roland Chia | Nov 3, 2023 | Pulse
Pulse 3 November 2023 Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream (Amos 5:24) On 7 October this year, Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on southern Israel by firing rockets, invading Israeli towns and army bases, taking...
by Dr Roland Chia | Oct 2, 2023 | Pulse
Pulse 2 October 2023 On 12 October, 2022, Channel News Asia (CNA) published an article on its website about a cryonics facility in Scottsdale, Arizona, run by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which claims to be the world leader in the field. Among its many...
by Dr Roland Chia | Sep 18, 2023 | Pulse
Pulse 18 September 2023 In his article published on the Channel News Asia website in June last year, Darryl Choo reported that academics and government officials here have been using the term ‘casual racism’ to describe a form of racism in Singapore. Choo writes that...
by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 21, 2023 | Pulse
Pulse 21 August 2023 On 18 August 2023, Channel News Asia reported that a photograph of a set of ‘gender neutral’ toilets at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre has provoked radically mixed reactions. On one extreme end of the spectrum were people...
by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 21, 2023 | Pulse
Pulse 21 August 2023 In 2016, Japanese researchers generated functional male and female mouse germ cells for the first time. These cells were created by reprogramming the skin cells of mice first into pluripotent stem cells and then into oocytes or eggs. Through in...
