Into the Depths
“Soundings” is a series of essays that, like the waves of a sonogram, explore issues in society, culture and the church in light of the Gospel and Christian...
Articles by ETHOS Institute
Digital Disruptions & Theological Education in the light of the COVID-19 Pandemic:...
What has Digital Learning to do with Theological Education? During the onset of COVID-19, a meme went viral on social media, asking, “Who led the digital transformation of...
Bodily Rights
On 24 June 2022, the Supreme Court made a landmark 5-4 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which established the constitutional right to abortion in the United States...
Get Out!
“Come out of her, my people” (Revelation 18:4) Revelation 18 opens with an angel speaking authoritatively. A declaration is made concerning the destruction of Babylon (a cipher for Rome),...
Obligation to Future Generations
One of the most significant and yet controversial developments in genetic science in recent decades is the Human Germline Genetic Modification (HGGM) technology. By employing a set of...
Niebuhr in Asia: Christianity and Culture
When we speak of ‘culture’, what do we mean? It is a notoriously slippery term, especially so when an Australian is writing for an unseen global readership! Culture...
Overturned
On 24 June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 decision, overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling of 1973 that established the constitutional...
Science and Theology as Analogous Research Programmes
Richard Dawkins, the famous British atheist, famously asserts that since science works, it must be true and we must believe what it says. If Christianity clashes with science,...
Not in Lofty Words – 1 Corinthians 2:1-12
Let me begin with a quotation: A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better...
Stopping Euthanasia, Revering Life – Some Ideas for Christians
In his book, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett writes about a mythical substance known as “universal acid”, something so corrosive that it will eat through anything that it came into...
A Common Platform
For anyone living in this century, it is evident that one of the contemporary issues facing the world today is that of religious diversity. From the perspective of...
An Unholy Alliance
In one of his epistles, the apostle John exhorts his readers not to believe every spirit, but to ‘test the spirits to see whether they are from God’...