Opinion

Character formation is an essential part of a person’s education. Virtues like being trustworthy, upright, altruistic, just, peaceable, filial and loving are what any country, and church, would be proud to see in young people. This is perhaps why our government, as part of a continued wish to develop people of good character, introduced the […]

Preposterous! Egregious! That he who walked on water across rampaging waves to rescue us, who rebuked rebellious winds hell-bent on scuttling all vessels on the breast of the Galilean sea with a word, that silenced the demon winds to a whimper, who fed five thousand with a boy’s dinner, who raised Lazarus, dead beyond redemption […]

…while orthodoxy teaches that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three persons in the one God, the modalists maintain that these are merely tags attached to the successive and varied manifestations of the one God. While the influence of dynamic monarchianism (p13 MM Oct 2013) was somewhat limited and short-lived, that of modalistic monarchianism was […]

  The Sermon on the Mount is familiar to all who have read the Gospels of Matthew (5-7) and Luke (6:17-49). Many books have been written and sermons preached on it since the early days of Christianity. What can we expect to find in yet another book on this famous sermon? Bishop Emeritus Dr Robert […]

  The quintessence of godliness lies not in the priestly garments of a holy order nor in sacred ornaments adorning neck or crown; Nor does it lie in pious demeanour and genuflection, in outward professions of faith alone, nor in an untainted genealogy; not in impressive public prayers and theological discourse, nor in ritual and […]

One of the most important tenets of the Christian faith (perhaps the most important) is the Trinity. Since its inception, the Church has taught that there is only one God. Like Judaism, Christianity is a monotheistic religion. But Christians have a very unique understanding of the oneness of God. For although Christians maintain that there is […]

Dixie Wong was just 24 when she was diagnosed with leukaemia. Now after a decade of agonising treatment with no improvement in sight but just constant decline in her physical condition, she came to this conclusion: “I’m sick and tired of the treatment because it is clearly not helping. The side effects are more unbearable than […]

I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh… while guiding my heart with wisdom… I made my works great… I acquired male and female servants… So I became great… Therefore I hated life because The work that was done was grievous to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind… God gives […]

Manichaeism grouped its followers into two distinct categories: the Elect were those who have attained knowledge by renouncing all sexual and physical pleasures, while the Hearers were second-class devotees who were not required to refrain from sexual activities as long as they did not regard them in a positive light. One of the most troubling […]

MARRIAGES AND RELATIONSHIPS are under siege today. Factors that contribute to divorces include neglect of the family, physical and emotional absence, adultery, selfish pursuits, financial tensions and a range of other behaviours. Christian couples and families are not immune and Christian counsellors and pastors share that they are now seeing more cases of marriage break-ups […]

STANDING UNSHOD, traumatised before the manifest presence of God, Moses gasped to hear the Divine assignment. Under Bedouin skies at nightfall, contemplating the majesty of distant stars that swept across every inglenook of space in the cloudless desert firmament, he had learnt the secrets of Creation: of Adam’s world and of his fall from grace, […]

ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL heterodox movements that exploded onto the scene in Asia Minor in the second century is Montanism. Named after its founder Montanus, a former pagan priest and recent convert to Christianity, this heresy is also known to its adherents as the New Revelation and the New Prophecy. In his village of […]