Enchanted by ‘Magic Bullets’?

by | Sep 4, 2017 | Feature

September 2017 Feature This brief essay attempts to describe a phenomenon which seems to be fairly widespread in the churches of Singapore. It represents an outsider perspective: I am a British citizen and PR who has lived in Singapore for 18 years. It should be read...

Civilisation and Barbarism

by | Nov 16, 2015 | Pulse

November 2015 Pulse In his 2011 book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker argues that “violence has been in decline for long stretches of time” and that “we may be living in the most peaceful era of our species’ existence.”...