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  • 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.

    Questions Inquiring City Harvesters Need to be Asking

    Posted on June 27, 2010 | 2 Comments
    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.

    Of YouTube and Salesmen

    Posted on June 24, 2010 | 2 Comments
    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.

    Speak Up or Be Spoken For!

    Posted on May 5, 2010 | 7 Comments
    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 morality, and in this case, one conspicuously espoused by Christian traditionalists.

    Four out of six MOE sex-ed vendors are Christian organisations

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | 4 Comments
    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 morality, and in this case, one conspicuously espoused by Christian traditionalists.

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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.

    Religion and pluralism in a divided world

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | 16 Comments
    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.

    Is Singapore a secular nation?

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | 6 Comments
    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.

    Christian to Christian: Collective Repentance

    Posted on February 27, 2010 | 4 Comments
    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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