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...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 19, 2018 | Pulse
March 2018 Pulse It is perhaps common knowledge that Singapore is the most religiously diverse country in the world. According to a 2014 study from Pew Research, 33.9 per cent of its population is Buddhist, 18.2 per cent Christian, 14.3 per cent Muslim, 5.2 per cent...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 5, 2018 | Pulse
March 2018 Pulse Reader’s Question: How would you envision pastoral ministry in an age of robots with Artificial Intelligence. I would like to broaden the question by examining some of the ways in which AI could impact religion, and the issues and questions this might...
