by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 6, 2018 | Credo
August 2018 Credo Secular scholars who write on disability are often critical of religious accounts mostly because of the latter’s allegedly negative approaches. They point out that in Christianity – for example – disability is often associated with sin and divine...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 4, 2018 | Credo
August 2018 Credo Secular scholars who write on disability are often critical of religious accounts mostly because of the latter’s allegedly negative approaches. They point out that in Christianity – for example – disability is often associated with sin and divine...
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 | 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 Ethos Institute | Jul 5, 2015 | Pulse
July 2015 Pulse Without a doubt, the advances of modern Western medicine have benefited society in many ways. From vaccinations against debilitating but preventable diseases to targeted cancer therapies, modern medicine has contributed to the unprecedented decline in...