by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 15, 2016 | Pulse
August 2016 Pulse In November 2010, Fr. Christian Mbusa Bakulene and a parish worker were walking to St. John the Baptist Church in Kanyabayonga in the province of North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of Congo, when two armed men in combat fatigue stopped them and...
by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 1, 2016 | Pulse
August 2016 Pulse In his profound study on symbols and the sacred, the Catholic religious philosopher Louis Dupré observes that for the longest stretch of human history art and religion are inseparable. Changes in cultural sensibilities, however, have caused the two...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 18, 2016 | Pulse
July 2016 Pulse In June 2011, I wrote an article for The Straits Times on multiculturalism in Singapore at the invitation of the The United Nations Alliance of Civilisation. In the article, I argued that the Government’s approach has succeeded in fostering social...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 4, 2016 | Pulse
July 2016 Pulse In 2011, Charlie Hebdo (CH) published a cover cartoon featuring three rolls of toilet paper, each labelled ‘Bible’, ‘Koran’ and ‘Torah’. In case the message is missed, the cartoon is accompanied by the headline ‘In the toilet, all the religions’...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 20, 2016 | Pulse
June 2016 Pulse Without doubt one of the most fascinating and rapidly developing fields in modern technology is robotics. From surgical robots to DNA nano-robots capable of bipedal motion, the advances in this field in the past decade have been so staggering and...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 6, 2016 | Pulse
June 2016 Pulse One of the most disturbing moral fictions in the field of medicine in our time is the so-called neurological criteria for determining death that equate brain death with the death of a human being. This new approach was proposed in 1968 by an Ad Hoc...
