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The Asian church has begun to respond and reach out to migrants. However, this concern for the other is patchy and lacks robust theological foundations. This work is an adaptation of the author's major study, Theologising Migration: Otherness and Liminality in East Asia, using otherness and liminality as lenses to examine the scripture in order to understand God's heart for migrants and the responsibility of His people towards them. It ends with some pointers towards concrete action by the church

This article presents a comparison of two different representations of foreign domestic workers in Singapore. In the Singapore mainstream, which I understand as government policy documents, newspaper articles, advice from main agencies, and blog content, domestic helpers are portrayed either as victims of abuse by employers or as lazy, devious, or stupid functionaries. By contrast, in deeply personal poems entered into recent Migrant Worker Poetry Competitions the domestic helpers represent themselves as bringers of change, survivors, and thoughtful people at the margins. This bifurcated representation I call, "A tale of two Siti's", borrowing a name common among Indonesian domestic helpers to make the pun. The treatment and portrayal of domestic helpers in the Singapore mainstream reveals elements of neo-colonialism, exploitation, and a strong binary between self and other which seem to have continued through Singapore's colonial and decolonial experience, and on into a new situation in which the island nation is in some way a neo-colonial power within Southeast Asia. This article attempts to give voice to domestic helpers from Indonesia and the Philippines, by analysing and quoting from poems they entered into the 2015 and 2016 migrant poetry competition. The poems themselves, and reaction to them and their authors are shown as negating a neo-colonial binary and celebrating the humanity and self-sacrifice of these women for family at home.

This paper reflects on unity and identity within evangelicalism, briefly tracing the development of the movement within Protestantism before sketching its current situation. From the very beginning of Protestantism, concepts such as authority, scripture, and church, and their relations to individual believers have been complex. Five hundred years after the Reformation, the unity of the movement has come under increasing strain. Evangelicals have been buffeted by the modernist influence of the Fundamentalist-Liberal controversy in the United States, the advent of postmodernity, and a developing sense of unease within, although their numerical strength and global representation have continued to increase. Current issues facing evangelicalism include authority in the church, relations with political causes, and relevance to our pluralistic modern world; responses to such challenges reflect the internal diversity of the movement. Earlier identity markers of adherence to scripture and doctrinally-based exclusivism have begun to fade as evangelicalism has become more fragmented and with the rise of newer, more Spirit-oriented subgroups. The paper introduces positive trends emerging in some parts of the evangelical movement due to internal angst, secularisation, and the holistic understanding of faith associated with the Lausanne Movement. Evangelicals now show increased openness to social involvement, learning from other Christian traditions, and cooperation in mission endeavours. The final section explores the potential for bridge building between evangelicalism and the Orthodox Church, framed by ideas from Gerard Hughes and Friedrich Schleiermacher. Although the paper can only credibly examine the evangelical end of the bridge, it is hoped that the general insights may benefit bridge builders at the Orthodox end also. Keywords: unity, identity, Christian Church, Evangelicalism, Orthodox Church

Katie Schmuecker and Paul Woods highlight the broken nature of England's local authority funding model, an opaque process that produces often inequable results, and set out four principles to guide reform of local government funding.

`Why is there a black hole where women should be?' asked Member of Parliament Chi Onwurah during her plenary talk on women in science at EWASS 2018. Gender equity was among a variety of topics discussed in a day-long Special Session.

Abstract The international pharmaceutical industry has made significant efforts towards ensuring compliant and ethical communication and interaction with physicians and patients. This article presents the current status of the worldwide governance of communication practices by pharmaceutical companies, concentrating on prescription-only medicines. It analyzes legislative, regulatory, and code-based compliance control mechanisms and highlights significant developments, including the 2006 and 2012 revisions of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) Code of Practice. Developments in international controls, largely built upon long-established rules relating to the quality of advertising material, have contributed to clarifying the scope of acceptable company interactions with healthcare professionals. This article aims to provide policy makers, particularly in developing countries, with an overview of the evolution of mechanisms governing the communication practices, such as the distribution of promotional or scientific material and interactions with healthcare stakeholders, relating to prescription-only medicines.