Being Real in a Contrarian and Acquisitive World

By Daniel Koh Kah Soon

(This article is originally a talk given at the Graduates’ Christian Fellowship Intersect Conference 2010 'Real World, Real Christian' on 19 March 2010 at the Singapore Bible College, reprinted in Graduates' Christian Fellowship Bulletins, issue July 2010, and reproduced at Graduates' Christian Fellowship website.)


This world which God has given us as a home has gone through a few “tsunamic upheavals” in recent years. I am not talking about the natural disasters, which have afflicted our region and brought about destructions to properties and deaths to thousands of people. The convulsions such as the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the more recent worldwide economic melt-down, were implosions waiting to happen, due to frantic attempts by some unscrupulous CEOs and their finance officers at creative accounting. Before the world’s financial institutions were pulled down by some once-a-upon-a-time “darlings” of Wall Street, there were already hints of impending wider corporate disasters when one-time business giants like Enron, Arthur Anderson and Global Crossings, were brought to their knees because of market manipulations and high levels of corporate greed and scandals.

Caring For Creation

By Daniel Koh Kah Soon

(This article originally published in Wesley Methodist Church quarterly magazine Tidings, issue 2008 the third quarter.)

An Inconvenient Truth?

The world is facing an environmental crisis. Unless we are completely out of touch with what is happening around the world, we cannot read newspapers, surf the net and watch television and not be aware of it. It is true that some people may dispute the cause and the gravity of the crisis. For example, there are those who have scorned at Al Gore’s controversial An Inconvenient Truth and some of them have seen it as alarmist. Yet in spite of that and the refusal of the United States to endorse the Kyoto Protocol which seeks to manage our vulnerable environment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an independent scientific body set up by the World Meteorological Organization and by the United Nations Environment Programme in its Fourth Assessment Report (2007) has sounded the latest wake-up call for the leaders of the world to address the growing environmental crisis or face the consequences which such a crisis may have on the well-being of our common home, the planet earth which we inhabit.