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YEARS ago, during my army Basic Military Training, we green recruits had to learn the SAF’s Code of Conduct. There are six official statements but we were jokingly taught a seventh unofficial Code, “C.O.C. 7”. It has, since then, stuck in my mind: “Do what you want, but don’t get caught.” It was a big […]

EVERY newborn baby, observed a wise man, is a sign that God has not given up on us. I suppose the same is true when we enter a new year. God has not given up on us. The annual covenant service is a uniquely Wesleyan contribution to the worship and spirituality of the church. The […]

  THIS has been a very difficult year in many respects. Jobs are scarce; the economy is not really picking up and what is worse, violence continues to rear its ugly head now and again. We don’t even know whether the coming Christmas will be violent or peaceful. What message does the Christian church have […]

  The message of Christmas for us A CHRISTMAS carol tells us to “Deck the halls with boughs of holly … ’tis the season to be jolly”, but the mood for many people this Christmas is far from jolly. Many wonder if ” … happy days (will) ever return” (Straits Times, Oct 20, 2002). Robbed […]

IN ORDER to work in Singapore as a domestic help for a two-year period, an Indonesian woman has to fork out 7 million rupiahs (S$1,400) to a maid agency. However, she does not come out with the cash upfront. The moment she lands in Singapore, the family whom she will be assigned to pays the […]

THE devil came up with an unsolicited and tempting suggestion. He urged Jesus to climb to the highest point of the temple and throw Himself down (Mt. 4:5-6). According to his devilishly shrewd logic, if Jesus was the Son of God, then God will surely command His angels to make sure that Jesus was not […]

  What is special about stem cells? THERE is nothing, it seems, quite like stem cells. They are capable of developing into any of the many cell types that make up the human body. This potential to be converted into a wide range of specialised cells is widely expected to pave the way for truly […]

HAVE you ever regarded children as being very bothersome? I have and I know many who do, at least sometimes. To the poor eking out an existence, the coming of another child means another mouth to feed. To some young couples, having children means setting up impediments to reaching their goal of a high-flying career. […]

  Is there such life? If it does exist, it must be seen as part of God’s good creation ON THE 20th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s phenomenally successful “E. T. Extraterrestrial”, there appeared a thriller written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, whom Newsweek has slated to be the next Spielberg, called “Signs”. Based on […]

THE doctrine of the anonymous Christian is commonly associated with the Roman Catholic theologian Karl Rahner. It refers to the belief that good people of other faiths are in fact Christians except in name. But the anonymous Christians I have in mind are a very different breed. In fact, they are entirely different from Rahner’s […]

A Christian home in old Ephesus: Notice the cross at the top of the entrance. — Picture by the Rev Alfred Yeo.   That is to love God, to do what He requires of us, and to love one another ONE of the most interesting Christian communities in the New Testament is the Christian church […]

How should Christians respond? BIOLOGICAL science crossed a significant milestone at 5 pm on July 5, 1996 when embryologists Drs Ian Wilmut and K. H. S. Campbell and their team at Roslin Institute, a research centre near Edinburgh, successfully cloned a lamb from cells taken from a mature sheep. The technique they used is known […]