by Dr Roland Chia | Nov 1, 2021 | Pulse
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...
by Dr Roland Chia | Oct 18, 2021 | Pulse
October 2021 Pulse In an article published on the website ‘Common Sense with Bari Weiss’, Katie Herzog tells the story of a medical school professor who had to apologise to his class for using the term ‘pregnant women.’ He said to his students: ‘I said “when a woman...
by Dr Roland Chia | Oct 4, 2021 | Pulse
October 2021 Pulse In his National Day Rally this year, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong devoted about a third of his speech to the topic of race and religion, citing recent incidents of racial tension in Singapore. The Prime Minister also announced that a new law in...
by ETHOS Institute | Sep 20, 2021 | Pulse
September 2021 Pulse ‘We made a conscious determination to be multiracial, multi-religious, and that no one would be squatted upon on account of racial or religious beliefs. That commitment to our people will not waver … We should not allow it to waver, and we must...
by Dr Roland Chia | Sep 6, 2021 | Pulse
September 2021 Pulse There is a growing body of literature on religion online, the phenomena which takes advantage of the digital age and all its affordances to create religious communities in cyberspace where members ‘congregate’ to take part in religious rituals or...
by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 27, 2021 | Pulse
2021 Pulse The coronavirus pandemic, which has ravaged the world for twenty months, has brought a number of profound theological and ethical issues to the surface. These issues range from the question of the sovereignty of God to ethical questions regarding the...
