FAMILY stories often seem to have recurring themes. Some therapists call them family scripts. It seems as if unwritten but nevertheless powerful scripts find expression generation after generation. Researchers have noted that certain patterns in attitude and behaviour tend to be repeated in family history. Alcoholism, suicide, domestic violence, broken families, and other patterns of […]
ARE you a dragon? A horse? A Gemini? A Librian? Astrology uses these signs to describe you by judging the positions and qualities of the stars and planets according to their influence on events or human personality – in fact, upon all areas of life, including the future. Astrology sees our world as a miniature […]
WHAT is art? For most of us, when we think of art we immediately think of sculptures, museums and art galleries. To us, art is not an everyday thing – it is something abstract, remote and perhaps even elitist. In our minds, only the privileged can enjoy art – that is, one must either be […]
NOVEMBER was the season of the Annual Conferences. The 28th Session of the Chinese Annual Conference (CAC) was held at Sengkang Methodist Church from Nov 11 to 13, 2003. Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC) held its 28th Session at Sophia Blackmore Hall, 6th floor, Methodist Centre, on Nov 7 and 8, while Trinity Annual Conference […]
NEW YORK – For 40 years, a building across the avenue from the United Nations headquarters in New York has stood as a witness to Christian support for efforts in international diplomacy to advance the causes of peace, human rights, development and ecology. Called the Church Centre for the United Nations, the United Methodist-owned building […]
RAC President tells pastors at Ordination Service: Be diligent, carry yourselves well, don’t neglect God’s gifts given to you PASTORS have been urged to be diligent in their teaching, to carry themselves with dignity, and not to neglect the gifts that God has bestowed on them. The Rev Dr Isaac Lim, President of Trinity Annual […]
DATE: April 13-15, 2004 VENUE: Sofitel Palm Resort, Johor COME April and Methodists will be given the rare privilege of listening to and interacting with Dr John Stott, the world-renowned English Founder and Honorary President of the London Institute for Christianity. The author of more than 40 books, including best-sellers Basic Christianity, The Cross of […]
THE Methodist Welfare Services (MWS) was among 103 recipients to receive the President’s Certificate of Commendation during the Special Investiture of the 2003 National Day Awards for Overcoming SARS. Mr Chan Kum Kit, Chairman of the MWS, received the award from President S. R. Nathan. The certificate was awarded to organisations that played a […]
A 37-YEAR-OLD Bolivian household worker-turned-activist is the recipient of the 2003 World Methodist Peace Award. Ms Casimira Rodriguez Romero was recognised in a ceremony at La Reforma Methodist Church in La Paz, Bolivia, on Nov 20, 2003. His Eminence Sunday Mbang, Chairman of the World Methodist Council (WMC), presented the award, which is given annually […]
