by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 2, 2025 | Pulse
Pulse 2 June 2025 For churches that include the recitation of the ancient creeds in their order of worship or liturgy, the most commonly used is surely the Apostles’ Creed (Symbol of the Apostles). Originating in the 4th or 5th century, the creed is used in the Latin...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 19, 2025 | Pulse
Pulse 19 May 2025 The election of Robert Cardinal Francis Prevost as the 267th occupant of the Throne of Peter has prompted me to re-read Rerum Novarum, the encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated in 1891. This is because the new pope has chosen ‘Leo XIV’ as his papal...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 5, 2025 | Pulse
Pulse 5 May 2025 For many Protestant Christians, the Reformation of the 16th century was a monumental reform movement that profoundly impacted Western Christianity. The Reformation is seen primarily, if not exclusively, as an ecclesiastical and theological movement...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 21, 2025 | Pulse
Pulse 21 April 2025 A Christian critique of transhumanism can be approached from various angles. For example, it can examine the way in which transhumanists have so exalted the current and potential achievements of science and technology that they end up embracing a...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 7, 2025 | Pulse
Credo 7 April 2025 The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him (Habakkuk 2:20) One of the more noticeable features of the modern Church – especially its Protestant / Evangelical expressions – is the erosion of the idea of sacred places or...
by Dr Roland Chia | Mar 17, 2025 | Pulse
Pulse 17 March 2025 We can say, without exaggeration, that one of the most worrying maladies that plague the inhabitants of the modern age is attention deficit. In many ways, this problem is so subtle that it often goes unnoticed – it escapes our attention (pun...