by Dr Roland Chia | Oct 5, 2020 | Pulse
October 2020 Pulse The Covid-19 pandemic, which emerged suddenly late last year, is still ravaging many countries in the world, bringing in its wake not only unprecedented disruptions to their economies, but sadly also the loss of many lives. As I write this article,...
by Dr Roland Chia | Sep 21, 2020 | Pulse
September 2020 Pulse In their interesting study published in 2018 in the journal Sociology of Religion entitled ‘Make America Christian Again: Christian Nationalism and Voting for Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election’, Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry...
by Dr Roland Chia | Sep 7, 2020 | Pulse
September 2020 Pulse One of the most important discussions to be had today is the relationship between the Church and the State, and, more broadly, that between Christianity and the prevailing political cultures and ideologies of the day. The relentless march of...
by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 17, 2020 | Pulse
August 2020 Pulse On September 2019, my wife and I attended a Sunday service at the famous Thomaskirche in Leipzig. As expected of a church whose fame is largely owed to its most celebrated choir director, the great Johann Sebastian Bach, the service was shot through...
by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 3, 2020 | Pulse
August 2020 Pulse In an animated debate with Elon Mask at the three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in August 2019, Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba, insisted that artificial intelligence poses no threat to humanity. ‘Computers may be...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 20, 2020 | Pulse
July 2020 Pulse An expression that has appeared again and again in reports about measures mandated to contain the global coronavirus outbreak is ‘social distancing’. According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, social distancing (used interchangeably...
