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...
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...
Christianity and the University
When the early modern universities were established in Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries, they were centres of research, expertise and progressive thinking. During those times there...
Mark 16:17-18: A Biblical Mandate for Handling Poisonous Snakes?
The Practice of Snake Handling The practice of snake handling, especially venomous ones, can be found in some churches as part of their worship service. Although snake handling has...
Faithful Presence
Reader’s Question: How can I be a faithful witness for Christ to my sceptical friends and colleagues? In 1 Peter 2:9, we have one of the most remarkable...
Bonhoeffer and Discipleship
“Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.” These words eloquently summarise the central message of Dietrich...
Prayer from the Depths of Despair
Remember my affliction and my wanderings,The wormwood and the gall!My soul continually remembers it,And is bowed down within me.But this I call to mind,And therefore I have hope:The...
Modern Slavery
Despite the incredible leaps that our species have made in the last couple of centuries, one of the oldest scourges that has accompanied us throughout our history still...