Citizens of Heaven on Earth
Recently, I became acquainted with the striking story of a 22 year old Singaporean while visiting a friend in San Francisco. At the age of 3, he relocated...
Proverbs: Rulers and Working for Justice
Israel’s kings had a hand in the composition of the Book of Proverbs (Prov. 1:1; 25:1). It is not surprising, then, that some of the sayings in Proverbs...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...