Faith and Pestilence

On 31 December 2019, Wuhan, the largest metropolitan region in China’s Hubei province reported an outbreak of cases of people who have become ill with an inexplicable respiratory...

The Temptations of Ageing

One can start well in a race, but things can go wrong along the way, so much so that he may not even end the race. Or he...

Being a Christian in a Secular Society

In a world that is increasingly detached from religious belief, it is not easy to be a Christian that inspires faith.  The rise of secularism has placed believers...

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,...

What is the Gospel?

Our Common Understanding of the Gospel The key message of the Christian faith is the “gospel” (or good news). This inevitably leads us to the question, “What is...

The Urban Church and Creative Urbanism

Can the church help envision the cities of the future? The 21st Century world will be an urban world. The Asian Development Bank states in 2008 that over one...

Ritual Matters

Humans are ritual animals. Their deepest ideas and feelings are not just communicated in words, but more deeply in actions, signs and symbols. In fact, in many Asian...