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View Article  Yesterday at OMHSI forum, "Was Jesus Political?"
...Goh Keat Peng thundered the newly renovated auditorium of PJ Gospel Hall yesterday with strong indictments against the Church of Malaysia: We have chosen to close an ear to socio-political agenda! And even if we are political, we are selfishly selective in our political concern. Do we only care about religious freedom when we cannot get permits for our new church building? Do we only care about religious freedom when a Christian cannot change her religious status in her identity card? What about the freedom of religion for the Buddhists? the Hindus? the Muslims? Orang Asli? What about the immigrants' plights? The oppression of labourers? Gender equality? We are living in the 21st century and only now we ask, "Was Jesus political?"!!    more »
View Article  Reading the Bible
But the Bible is so clear! How many times do we hear our church friends exclaiming to our horrible conscience for not taking a strong stance on a particular issue due to our lack of understanding of passages which strangely seemed so clear to others. The truth is, the bible may be clear (at least to its original readers), but are we?   more »
View Article  The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West*
In the history of Western Christianity—and hence, to a large extent, in the history of Western culture—the Apostle Paul has been hailed as a hero of the introspective conscience. Here was the man who grappled with the problem “I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want to do is what I do …” (Rom. 7:19). His insights as to a solution of this dilemma have recently been more or less identified, for example, with what Jung referred to as the Individuation Process;1 but this is only a contemporary twist to the traditional Western way of reading the Pauline letters as documents of human consciousness.   more »

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