by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 18, 2018 | Pulse
June 2018 Pulse In her article entitled ‘The Trouble With Modern Marriage’, published in Psychology Today, Erica B. Slotter echoed the questions asked by many marital researchers: “‘What gives?’ What has changed about the nature of marriage since the 1970s that makes...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 1, 2018 | Pulse
June 2018 Pulse In its May 18, 2017 issue, The Straits Times reported that researchers in Japan have succeeded in creating viable eggs from the skin cells of adult female mice. Using a technique known as in-vitro gametogenesis (IVG), the team led by Professor...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 21, 2018 | Pulse
May 2018 Pulse The Straits Times reported on 4 Nov 2016 that the government would be extending the Compulsory Education Act, which was passed in Parliament in 2000, to special needs children. This will take effect in 2019. Minister for Education (Schools) Mr Ng...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 7, 2018 | Pulse
May 2018 Pulse In one of his epistles, the apostle John exhorts his readers not to believe every spirit, but to ‘test the spirits to see whether they are from God’ (1 John 4:1). John was of course urging his readers to exercise spiritual discernment ‘because many...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 16, 2018 | Pulse
April 2018 Pulse In his first epistle to the Christians of the disapora scattered throughout Asia Minor, the apostle Peter used vivid and powerful imagery drawn from the Old Testament to describe the Church. “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 2, 2018 | Pulse
April 2018 Pulse One of the most significant and controversial recent developments in genetic engineering and genomics is CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), a new genomic editing tool. While scientists have been tinkering with the...
