by Dr Thomas Harvey | Jul 3, 2017 | Feature
July 2017 Feature I know, O Lord, that the way of humankind is not in themselves, that it is not in the person who walks to direct their steps. Jeremiah 10:23[i] As a young man, I worked as a foreman on a US National Forest Service fire-crew in the Cascade Mountain...
by Dr Roland Chia | Feb 6, 2017 | Credo
February 2017 Credo In the Eastern Church, the Trisagon is usually sung before the Prokeimenon of the Gospel and the reading of the Epistle. Known as Ter Sanctus in Western Christianity, this ancient prayer celebrates the holiness and transcendence of God with the...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jan 3, 2017 | Credo
January 2017 Credo In 1989, the British Council of Churches published a collection of essays with an interesting and arresting title: The Forgotten Trinity. The authors of these essays – prominent theologians in the UK – lament the neglect of the doctrine of the...
by Dr Roland Chia | Dec 19, 2016 | Pulse
December 2016 Pulse In August 2015, injured volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison received a face transplant in a 26-hour surgery performed by plastic surgeon Dr Eduardo Roderiguez and his team, a procedure which cost US$1 million (S$1.36 million). The donor was...
by Dr Roland Chia | Nov 7, 2016 | Credo
November 2016 CREDO ‘The world is charged with the grandeur of God’, declares the Catholic poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. ‘It will flame out, like shining shook foil’. In these words we find an echo of a similar but more ancient attestation found in the Psalter, Israel’s...
