Going Public: Christian Engagement in the Secular World

All the best to our Lead for Life 2021 cohort starting on their Year 3 journey! The theme for Year 3 is Global Leadership & Career and we wish our students all the best as they are encouraged to expand their horizons and explore how character leadership can make a positive impact in diverse cultures and…

Presenters from The University of Hong KongThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong Shue Yan UniversityCity University of Hong KongUnited Christian Hospital 15 Papers in Total ProgramOpening remarks and a video message from Crystal Park (Former President of Division 36 of APA and Author of Handbook of Psychology of Religion and Spirituality): Psychology of Religiousness and…

The “Global South” is not the helpful image it once was for the purposes of understanding economic growth and the Christian rise in Chinese societies. Instead, I propose to adopt the concept of Global China. Global China means Chinese societies of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as Chinese diasporas in Asia, the…

The QU4RTETS presents four sets of paintings by Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman, as part of an ongoing artistic collaboration in word, image and music, with composer Christopher Theofanidis and theologian Jeremy Begbie inspired by T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets.  As a rare instance of painting and poetry productively informing one another, the QU4RTETS paintings…

Received wisdom is that evolution is a more-or-less open-ended process, and lacks any predictability. This applies to all species, including humans. We too are just another historical accident, of no more (or less) significance than a snake or dragon fruit. Central to this supposition are not only random factors such as mutations, but the claim…

To be human is to be in some way special. Most people would assent to this idea, and yet every aspect of its consideration raises more questions. Are we special because we are human, or are we human because we are special? Is the essence of our humanity founded in our bodies, our brains, our…