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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At one point of our lives, we may come across salespersons who would promote their products to us the consumers. Basically, their main aim is to convince us to buy their products. They claim that their products benefit us. Some go a step further, especially in instances where there are competing product brands.
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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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By merely leaning on an obvious Christian formulation of sexual morality, there is not just a flagrant disregard for how complex and varied the world operates with various other codes and conventions peculiar to different cultures and polities, it also entrenches students in a myth that there can and should only be an absolute...
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Public lecture by Anwar Ibrahim at the London School of Economics, March 18, 2010. Click 'play' to listen to the audio recording of the speech (which includes a Q&A session). The speech transcript is available below.
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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. 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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