by Dr Roland Chia | May 4, 2020 | Pulse
May 2020 Pulse Our world is shrouded in darkness. Since December last year, a silent, deadly and invisible enemy has been ravaging it, disrupting society, destroying lives, and plunging everything into chaos. Epidemiologists, scientists and doctors scramble to find a...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 20, 2020 | Pulse
April 2020 Pulse During the earlier period of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in South Korea, many of the infected were traced to a mysterious organisation which has hitherto been off the radar of the authorities, despite its huge following of 245,000. The full...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 6, 2020 | Pulse
April 2020 Pulse On 31 December 2019, Wuhan, the largest metropolitan region in China’s Hubei province reported an outbreak of cases of people who have become ill with an inexplicable respiratory infection (‘pneumonia of unknown aetiology’). Sequencing reveals that...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 16, 2020 | Pulse
March 2020 Pulse For many years now, “leadership” has been the buzzword both in the Church and in secular society. But this ubiquitous “L” word has, of late, become reduced to superficial “jump on the bandwagon” jargon-worn and overused. Christian books and articles...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 2, 2020 | Pulse
March 2020 Pulse During the Easter service of the Orthodox Church, the ‘Troparion’ is sung after the celebrant announces the resurrection of Christ at the door of the church and intones the blessing to the Holy Trinity. Incorporating Psalm 68, the Church declares: Let...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 17, 2020 | Pulse
February 2020 Pulse In the second century, pagans in the Greco-Roman world accused Christians of atheism, cannibalism, and incest. Christians were accused of atheism partly because they refused to worship the Roman gods, and partly because they had no shrines or...
