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...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 20, 2018 | Pulse
February 2018 Pulse Our world is currently facing a displacement crisis at an unprecedented scale. In 2015 alone, more than 65 million people have been forced from their homes by conflict and persecution, over half of whom are under the age of 18. This tally is...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 5, 2018 | Pulse
February 2018 Pulse I think it is true to say that every single human being – irrespective of his or her cultural background or worldview – is in pursuit of the good life. But when we probe what exactly is meant by ‘the good life’, we will get radically different...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 15, 2018 | Pulse
January 2018 Pulse On 6 December 2017, US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced plans to relocate the US embassy there from Tel Aviv. This move not only overturned more than seventy years of US Foreign Policy. It also has...
