I was introduced to a YouTube video of a sermon given by my acquaintance Aaron Lee, a church elder (Yio Chu Kang Chapel Church), poet and lawyer. He gave an interesting talk about his encounter with a robot named Nadine, and his convictions about the essence of being human: imago dei. The video can be […]
Pastor Lee took off his jacket and immediately slumped into the living room sofa. It was four o’clock on Saturday afternoon. The heat had been sapping his energy and goodwill. He had returned home after the funeral service at the crematorium. He stared in silence at his own weary face on the television screen. He […]
Fifty years of reading the Bible, and some things continue to puzzle me. A case in point is the sordid account of Judah and Tamar, his daughter-in-law, in Genesis chapter 38. It looked out of place. Chapter 37 ended, “Meanwhile, the Midianites had sold him to Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain […]