The God of the Scientists

17 January 2022 Pulse In June 2018, Forbes published an interesting article entitled, ‘Did History’s Most Famous Scientists Believe in God?’ The article answers this question in the affirmative and provides a formidable list of scientists who held some kind of...

Woke

3 January 2022 Pulse Click here for the Chinese translation of this article. On August 9, 2014, an 18-year-old black man, Michael Brown, was shot by a white police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri. This case sparked an...

The Ethics of Animal-to-Human Transplant

December 2021 Pulse On October 20, 2021, The Straits Times reported that for the first time, ‘a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient’s immune system’. This may signal a significant breakthrough in...

Two Peoples or One?

November 2021 Pulse In his book Final Dawn Over Jerusalem (1998), the popular American pastor and televangelist, John Hagee, argues that God has two chosen peoples: Israel and the Church. Hagee’s view is based on a certain reading of Genesis 22:17, where God said to...

Religion, Secularism and Society

November 2021 Pulse 2020 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act, a unique piece of legislation passed by Parliament that addresses the relationship between religion and the secular state in Singapore. The Act came about as a result...