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,...
by Dr Roland Chia | Sep 17, 2018 | Pulse
September 2018 Pulse In his book Dispatches From the Front, the Christian ethicist Stanley Hauerwas describes a commercial produced by the National Association for Retarded Citizens. The film begins with a couple standing in a dark room and looking into a crib, the...
by Dr Roland Chia | Sep 3, 2018 | Pulse
September 2018 Pulse Imagine creating robots so small that they are able to swim swiftly through fluids like blood to a specific destination to deliver medicine to treat a cancerous tumour. Such nanorobots would not only negate the need for invasive procedures; they...
by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 20, 2018 | Pulse
August 2018 Pulse One of the most interesting concepts peculiar to Methodism is ‘connectionalism’, a neologism coined to describe how the Methodist Church is ordered and organised. At the practical level, connectionalism refers to the ways in which Methodist churches...
by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 6, 2018 | Pulse
August 2018 Pulse The Swedish meteorologist working in the UK, Lennart Bengtsson, is without doubt one of the most respected climate scientists in the fraternity. In April 2014, Bengtsson joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a think tank that raised questions...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 16, 2018 | Pulse
July 2018 Pulse The last three decades have seen a slew of books on basic Christianity. A simple search on Amazon.com would yield titles like Christianity 101 (1993), Basic Discipleship (1992), and Christianity: The Basics (2014). These books receive their inspiration...
