Opinion

Terrorism Has No Religion card with colorful background with defocused lights After a closed-door meeting with 60 Madrasah students in March this year, Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam spoke to the press about the dangers that Islamophobia poses to the social fabric of Singapore. The origin of the term “Islamophobia” is somewhat obscure. However, it is clear that by the late 1990s, […]

How shall I come before the Lord, Bow down before the exalted God? Will a perfect prescribed sacrifice Offered on the altar suffice? Will sacrifices in abundance, Offered without repentance? Will the gift of my firstborn alone, My life transform, my sin atone? You have shown, Lord, what is right In your sovereign righteous sight; […]

He seems so out-of-place in a church where most children have loving families, a wide selection of nice matching clothes and footwear. The other children in church would have attended nursery and kindergarten before going to a primary school. They would be able to read and spell a wide selection of words, and could express themselves clearly in English with some Chinese as well. But 10-year-old Hou Ann cannot string together a proper sentence in English.

Object Hearing aid on white background . In 2002, the Washington Post Magazine published a story of an American lesbian couple, Sharon Duchesneau and Candy McCullough – both of whom are deaf – who had deliberately chosen to have a deaf baby. A friend of theirs, with five generations of deafness in his family, donated […]

Open holy bible with glowing cross in the middle on wooden deck   The glamour of new messiahs enunciating words that give flesh and form to tenets framed by master-spirits – words compacted with designer genes to awaken and impassion the gullible who form the coterie of believers, capturing the headlines of tabloids and media, […]

In 2006, in an article published in Methodist Message, I argued that gender dysphoria is a form of mental disorder – a view I still hold today. If this judgement is sound, then far from being a helpful correction to the condition, sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) is in fact collaborating with the illness. In this […]

With faith in El Shaddai that could move mountains, this rubicund teenager fresh from the boondocks of Israel who had spent his youth tending his father’s flocks and writing and singing psalms with his shepherd’s harp to glorify his God, stepped forth into the battlefield unarmed, against the deadliest champion of the Philistines who had […]

  Wherever You Go A Conversation About Life, Faith and Courage by Hannah Lau Published by Graceworks Available at SKS Books, retails at $22   When a vision of God first captures us, we are often caught up in excitement, confident that the journey ahead will be filled with wonder and glory. But the truth […]

Person-centred care, or PCC, is a catchphrase familiar to the healthcare industry. It is also an adage the Singapore Alzheimer’s Disease Association (ADA) uses as the basis of their advocacy work on behalf of people living with dementia. The ADA explains that PCC captures a way of thinking and doing things that respects the person […]

  The field of counselling suffers from an acute lack of locally-written material, so when asked to review Kirby Chua’s book The Bible’s Secrets to Counselling, I jumped at the chance. Kirby’s book makes an interesting read. Well-informed in various counselling models and theories, he discusses the practice of counselling not only as a clinician […]

The Wesleyan Quadrilateral is one of the most important contributions of Methodism to theological thinking. Although John Wesley did not systemise it, it was attributed to his genius. For centuries, Scripture was mainly interpreted through the eyes of tradition in the early Church. This kept the Church from making progress theologically, and affected thinkers and […]

Unless God builds the family All effort is futility. Children are a gift from God, They are our reward. Like arrows in a quiver, Will our children deliver? Are they on target? Will we live to regret? Train a child the way to go, They will surely follow; If we offer a sample Of our […]