If you belong to a megachurch with a larger-than-life pastor on the preaching circuit or if your church is trying to sell you an ambitious building project, you may need to be asking some questions. Don’t let anyone tell you that you should just sit down and simply trust in the leadership.
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One year after the AWARE saga, there are more ordinary Christians who, having experienced first-hand the cost of sudden hurt and distrust, feel unafraid to express their disagreements with ideas that threaten a common space of citizenry.
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A gentle civil society can only be promoted with legislation that ensures that no one crosses the line inciting religiously motivated violence. The removal of the said legislation will accomplish nothing but establish the country as fertile ground for religious tribalism.
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By Gwee Li Sui. When the social climate has become so toxic that murmurs of Christians being "at it again” recur, we should be vigilant and have an answer. What we cannot ignore is the damage the controversies are already doing to our collective identity as Christians.
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By Gwee Li Sui. The sooner we can see family as just the smallest intimate unit of belonging and co-dependence, the sooner it becomes clear to us what a healthier idea of helping families entails.
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Donaldson Tan rebuts criticisms of LGBT community.
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By Gwee Li Sui. To be prepared against the return of such religious panic we experienced, Christians really need to look hard at the practical basis of their existence in a pluralistic society.
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By Gwee Li Sui. If the new ex-co will, without contest, give up its seats for a more inclusive shape of leadership in AWARE, it will have regained, I dare say, the faith of many Singaporeans and the admiration and support of every Christian in full measure.
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By Gwee Li Sui. As a secular body, AWARE rightly cannot have a vision that treats women from different backgrounds through the outlook of just one religious system. Indeed, I dare say that an appropriate Christian response is to resist the actions of these Christians.
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