Christianity and Marxism
In his book entitled Christianity and Marxism (1995), the renowned Scottish philosopher, Alasdair Macintyre, observes that there are three ways in which modern western society has viewed Marxist philosophy. The...
Articles by Dr Roland Chia
Clarifying Inter-faith Dialogue
In a recent interview published by The Straits Times, Mohammad Alami Musa, said that faith communities in Singapore ‘are still at the lower level of inter-religious engagement and discussion,...
Via Dolorosa (The Way of Sorrow)
In February 2015, Gay Byrne, host of the Irish religious television programme The Meaning of Life, asked militant atheist Stephen Fry what he would say to God if he...
Women: Different but Equal
In an article in the 1991 issue of Christianity Today entitled, ‘Let’s Stop Making Women Presbyters’, evangelical theologian and leader J. I. Packer wrote: ‘Presbyters are set apart for a...
Resurrection or Hallucination?
Throughout the history of the Church, there have been numerous attempts by her adversaries to debunk the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. It seems that these detractors...
Difficult Love
In 2017, ISIS detonated bombs at two Coptic churches in Egypt during their Palm Sunday services that killed at least 45 worshippers. The first explosion, which killed 27...
Miracles
Even the most casual reader of the Gospels will be struck by the many stories of miracles they tell. On page after page, the Gospel writers describe Jesus...
Loving Obedience
At the beginning of the 19th century, the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley declared that obedience is the “bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, “for it makes slaves...
Religion and Magic
One of the most fascinating figures in Acts is Simon Magus, who made his appearance in Acts 8, where Luke gives an account of the founding of the...
The Return of Christ
Reader’s Question: How should we understand the second coming of Christ? In the Apostles’ Creed, the Church declares that the risen and ascended Christ will come to ‘judge...
Worship and witness
In his first epistle to the Christians of the disapora scattered throughout Asia Minor, the apostle Peter used vivid and powerful imagery drawn from the Old Testament to...
Evidence for Jesus
Reader’s Question: Are there historical evidences that Jesus Christ lived and died? In his article entitled The Quest for the Mythical Jesus, Robert Price discusses ‘the series of realisations...