Vestiges of the Divine
‘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...
Climate Change: Missiological Implications
Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites,because the LORD has a charge to bring against you who live in the land:“There is no faithfulness, no love, no...
The Image of the Invisible God
The most unique and radical claim of the Christian Faith is not that God has revealed himself, but that he has done so by becoming a human being....
Speaking About God
The Christian faith is premised on the belief that since God has revealed himself, the Church as the recipient of this divine self-disclosure is able to say something...
Taking Doctrine Seriously
In the past three decades, a number of Christian writers and theologians have registered their alarm over the worrying decline in doctrinal literacy among Christians today. Theologians such...
Interrogating Multiculturalism
In June 2011, I wrote an article for The Straits Times on multiculturalism in Singapore at the invitation of the The United Nations Alliance of Civilisation. In the article, I...
Dying Faithfully: Biblical & Theological Perspectives
A statement made by a former archbishop of the Church of England in July 2014 caused quite a stir among Christians, not only in his own denomination, but...
What is Theology?
In the ‘Preface’ of his famous work, the Proslogion (English: Discourse on the Existence of God) published in 1078, the medieval theologian Anselm of Canterbury announces its main theme as ‘faith...
The Christian Mind
“We take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5) is what comes to my mind in writing about engagement of the mind. In 2 Corinthians 10, Paul writes...
Cities and Human Flourishing
In his fascinating book, Triumph of the City the world-renown economist Edward Glaeser describes the significance of cities in the history of human civilisation with great eloquence and inimitable passion....
Solidarity and Social Justice
In an article entitled, ‘Social Justice in Singapore: Some Personal Reflections’, Tommy Koh argues that Singapore is both a social just and a socially unjust society. For Koh,...
The Crisis of Biblical Literacy
The “crisis of biblical literacy” among Christians is now well known. It has been reported in various journals for over 20 years now. The 17 October 2014 issue...