Picture by rolffimages/Bigstock.com Conflict gripped Sri Lanka in 1988, with two terrorist groups dominating different regions in the country. I was in Colombo to preach when a curfew was imposed, but my hosts managed to get a curfew pass to Kandy. While driving, we noticed that the roads were deserted with numerous checkpoints along the […]
Introduction: The tradition of the papal office f there is a leadership role immediately recognisable in world Christianity, it is that of the Pope. With a tradition going all the way back to the Apostle Peter, it is an office accorded honour, authority and respect from the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), comprising some 1.2 billion […]
Many of us fervently hope to find within us a fount of courage to weather trials and tribulations. Unbroken is the real-life account of one such person, whose tenacity lasted him through difficulties that might have been unbearable for some. Directed and produced by actress Angelina Jolie, this film begins in World War II in […]
Lenie Cho is Principal of St. Francis Methodist School. “We hope to equip every student of SFMS with knowledge and skills, instilling in them the right character and attitude.” St. Francis Methodist School (SFMS) aims to express the mission aspects of the Methodist church through its holistic approach to education and its expression of Christian values […]
It is sometimes said that for most people in Asia it is not a question of whether there is a God, but a question of which God? The challenge for us as Christians, then, is to show what reasons we have for thinking that Jesus is truly God. Robert M. Bowman Jr. and J. Ed […]
Gnarled and weighed down with age, the olive trees, deep-rooted in mothering soil had witnessed the soul-wrenching struggle that fateful night when the Lord of all Creation made flesh agonised over the magnitude of the cost of redeeming the creatures fashioned in His Father’s image. It wasn’t the humiliation, scourge, or the fatal cross, […]
Orientation Concept – Analogic Compass Abandoned on the Rocks The American sociologist Peter Berger is perhaps one of the most interesting scholars of secularism and religion. In his book The Sacred Canopy published in 1967, Berger presented the famous secularisation thesis which postulates that as modernity advances, the influence of religion will diminish and eventually […]
The author of the above 18th century hymn, James Montgomery, was born in Scotland to Irish parents. His father, John Montgomery, was a Moravian pastor. From a young age, James participated in the Holy Week services of his church where he heard the scripture readings interspersed with hymns and anthems. These experiences had immense impact on […]
Evangelistic events organised on public holidays are one of the ways that the Singapore Telugu Methodist Church offers community to its Telugu friends. The Telugu-speaking community is tightly knit, much like friends, and they come from the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states in Southeast India. The Telugu community in Singapore started when work opportunities […]
On 31 Jan 2015, Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference (ETAC) held our Annual Thanksgiving Service in the sanctuary of Tamil Methodist Church in Short Street, the second-oldest Methodist church in Singapore. Great has been God’s favour ever since Tamil Methodism took root in Singapore in 1886, and continued with the formation of ETAC in 1976. It is with […]
