Opinion

What does it mean to love one's country and one's nation? Does it mean that we should never criticise the state?

Even a cursory glance at the plethora of articles on online news media platforms will show just how much attention artificial intelligence (AI) technology and its impact on society has been receiving of late. Enthusiasts are predictably sanguine about the advance of AI and the way in which it will change the world for the better.

Since 2009 the United Nations has designated 20 February as World Day of Social Justice. The purpose of this observance is to "commemorate and urge all efforts to combat unemployment, social exclusion, and poverty".

Each Sunday, over 120 children in the ever-growing Children's Ministry at Aldersgate Methodist Church gather for a time of worship. The combination of dance actions, sign language and music engages the senses of the children and their teachers and leads them to worship God.

Spend any time exploring Chinese culture and practice, and one will without fail come across the notion of Qi (qi in Chinese pinyin or chi in Wade-Giles romanisation). It can be variously interpreted as "steam", "breath", "vital energy", "vital force", "material force", "matter-energy", "organic material energy", or "pneuma".

The past few decades have witnessed tremendous advances in the field of prenatal genetic screening. The new technologies that are being introduced promise to be game changers in the whole area of prenatal care.

In the past few decades, a number of churches across the different denominations have issued official statements calling their congregations to be places of inclusion and belonging, especially for people with disabilities. For example, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, in a statement published in 2011, reminds its member churches that: