by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 20, 2017 | Pulse
March 2017 Pulse After a closed-door meeting with 60 Madrasah students in March this year, Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam spoke to the press about the dangers that Islamophobia poses to the social fabric of Singapore. The origin of the term “Islamophobia”...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 6, 2017 | Pulse
March 2017 Pulse One of the most puzzling questions that continue to plague philosophers of mind is the relationship between mind and body. In a philosophical ethos where physicalist accounts of reality seem to be the new orthodoxy, phenomena such as consciousness...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 20, 2017 | Pulse
February 2017 Pulse In 2002, the Washington Post Magazine published a story of an American lesbian couple, Sharon Duchesneau and Candy McCullough – both of whom are deaf – who had deliberately chosen to have a deaf baby. A friend of theirs, with five generations of...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 6, 2017 | Pulse
February 2017 Pulse In many traditional treatments of Christian theological anthropology (the Christian understanding of human beings), the focus has been on the rational faculties or spiritual capacities that distinguish humans from the rest of the animals....
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 16, 2017 | Pulse
January 2017 Pulse In 2006, in an article published in Methodist Message, I argued that gender dysphoria is a form of mental disorder – a view I still hold today. If this judgement is sound, then far from being a helpful correction to the condition, sexual...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 3, 2017 | Pulse
January 2017 Pulse The shortage of transplantable organs is a public health crisis globally. In the United States, for example, 120,000 people are on the waiting list. It is estimated that 35 percent of all deaths in the U.S. can be prevented by organ transplantation....
