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...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 3, 2020 | Pulse
February 2020 Pulse In his epistle to the Christians in Rome, the apostle Paul instructs his readers to submit to the governing authorities. ‘Let every person be subject to the governing authorities’, he writes, because ‘there is no authority except from God and those...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 20, 2020 | Pulse
January 2020 Pulse In the spring of 2017, MIT Technology Review reported that a team of scientists from the University of Michigan discovered that they had made an embryo-like entity from human embryonic stem cells (ESCs). The team was attempting to make organoids –...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 6, 2020 | Pulse
January 2020 Pulse The Bible underscores the need for unity among believers. We are exhorted to live in harmony with one another (Rom 12:16, NIV). We are many parts that form one “body of Christ” (1 Cor 12:27). In his book on the Orthodox Church, the Russian...
by Dr Roland Chia | Dec 16, 2019 | Pulse
December 2019 Pulse In a recent report on urbanisation trends, the World Health Organization predicted that by 2030, six out of every 10 people in the world would be city dwellers. This means that virtually every global growth over the next 30 to 40 years will take...
by Dr Roland Chia | Dec 2, 2019 | Pulse
December 2019 Pulse In her book, Making Room, Christine Pohl said something that is immutably true about the relationship between Christianity and the practice of hospitality. “Hospitality,” she wrote nearly 20 years ago, “is a way of life fundamental to Christian...
