by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 2, 2023 | Pulse
Pulse 2 January 2023 In December 2019, the leadership of Bethel Church in Redding, California, prayed that God would bring two-year old Olive Alayne Heiligenthal, who had died suddenly, back to life. Her mother, Kalley, a well-known worship leader at Bethel, had...
by Dr Roland Chia | Dec 19, 2022 | Pulse
Pulse 19 December 2022 From 6 to 18 November 2022, Heads of State, ministers, climate activists, mayors, civil society representatives and CEOs met at the Egyptian Coast city of Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss climate change and climate action. This gathering known as the...
by Dr Roland Chia | Dec 5, 2022 | Pulse
Pulse 5 December 2022 The title of this article must surely appear to many readers as an oxymoron, an insuperable contradiction – and indeed it is! Yet there are Christians who self-identify as ‘progressive’ that are proposing just this – a Christian faith which must...
by Dr Roland Chia | Nov 22, 2022 | Pulse
Pulse 21 November 2022 One of the most influential voices in the Progressive Christianity movement is that of Brian McLaren, whose many books have waxed eloquent on why historic Christianity must be abandoned. Among them, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions that...
by Dr Roland Chia | Nov 7, 2022 | Pulse
Pulse 7 November 2022 In September 2018, The Straits Times published an article by Professor Tommy Koh entitled ‘Section 377A: There is a Difference between Sin and Crime’. The article addresses a wide range of topics including legislation against homosexual practices...
by Dr Roland Chia | Oct 17, 2022 | Pulse
Pulse 17 October 2022 At the beginning of this millennium, a number of evangelical Christian leaders experimented with adapting Christianity to the ever-pervasive postmodern culture and the sensibilities and ethos it engendered. These leaders have become increasingly...