by Dr Roland Chia | Nov 19, 2018 | Pulse
November 2018 Pulse In 2017, ISIS detonated bombs at two Coptic churches in Egypt during their Palm Sunday services that killed at least 45 worshippers. The first explosion, which killed 27 people and injured 78, took place in the Mar Girgis church located in the city...
by Dr Roland Chia | Nov 5, 2018 | Pulse
November 2018 Pulse Reader’s Question: How should Christians respond to the attempts to normalize same-sex relationships? Without a doubt, the LGBT advocacy movement may be said to be one of the most successful in modern history. Within a short space of fifty to sixty...
by Dr Roland Chia | Oct 22, 2018 | Pulse
October 2018 Pulse At the beginning of the 19th century, the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley declared that obedience is the “bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, “for it makes slaves of men, and of the human frame a mechanised automation.” A child of the...
by 谢正金博士 | Oct 10, 2018 | Pulse
海峡时报于9月24日(2018年)发表了一篇许通美教授的文章,名为“377A条文:罪恶不同于犯罪”。文章是因最近由印度最高法院裁定废除印度刑事法典377条文而引发了新加坡国人对377A条文的新一轮辩论后撰写的。 持“废除”和“保留”立场的双方都组织了在线请愿,以争取对其立场的支持。除了许教授之外,有好几位著名的公众人物也纷纷加入讨论,并表示支持废除此条文。新加坡基督教全国教会理事会、罗马天主教会大主教和回教当局都发表了反对废除的正式声明。 许教授在他的文章中讨论了一系列广泛的问题。...
by Dr Roland Chia | Oct 2, 2018 | Pulse
(Click here for Chinese version) October 2018 Pulse On September 24 (2018), The Straits Times published an article by Professor Tommy Koh entitled ‘Section 377A: There is a difference between a sin and a crime’. This article was written in the wake of renewed debate...
by Dr Roland Chia | Oct 1, 2018 | Pulse
October 2018 Pulse In his op-ed article published in The Straits Times (11 October 2017), Jonathan Eyal examines the problem with referendums in the wake of the one conducted in Catalonia, Spain. While some have hailed referendums as the highest form of democracy,...