"Justice" and "common good" are topics that have received much scholarly attention in the past few decades.

On 23 September 2017, the Ethos Institute for Public Christianity in collaboration with seven seminaries organized a conference to reflect on these important issues especially as they relate to Singapore and the region. The papers presented at this conference, which now comprise this volume, address a wide range of issues including immigration, the ecological crisis and the question of human rights from the biblical and theological perspectives. It is hoped that their publication in the Ethos Engagement Series would extend the discussion of these important topics to the wider Christian community.

Contributors of Articles:

• Justice and the Common Good: A Biblical Perspective by Philip Satterthwaite

Philip Satterthwaite has been a Lecturer in Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew at BGST since 1998. Before that he was a Research Fellow in Hebrew & Aramaic at Tyndale House, Cambridge. His main research areas are: the Old Testament Historical books; the Septuagint. In 2007, his book Exploring the Old Testament 2: The Histories (written in collaboration with J. G. McConville) was published by SPCK/IVP. Philip has preached and taught in a number of churches in Singapore. He is a member of Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church. He is married to Eileen.

• Immigration and Justice: Biblical Insights to Inform the Church's Response by Fong Choon Sam

Fong Choon Sam is Dean of Academic Studies at Baptist Theological Seminary Singapore. When he joined Christian ministry, he pastored Hosanna Baptist Church for 12 years until 2005 when he joined the faculty of his alma mater, Baptist Theological Seminary. He has remained a full-time lecturer at BTS and teaches missions, research, religions, and church history. His ministry focus in the last decades has been in Southeast and South Asian missions. He makes regular teaching trips and takes student teams to these regions and volunteers in local migrant ministry. Choon Sam is married and devoted to Christina and they have two daughters, Samantha, and Rebecca, who have grown up more quickly and beautifully than he was prepared for.

• Pastoral Responses to Satterthwaite and Fong by Simon Chan

Simon Chan teaches at Trinity Theological College and conducts regular spiritual retreats for lay leaders. He is the editor of Asia Theological Journal. His published works include Grassroots Asian Theology (IVP Academic) and Pentecostal Ecclesiology (Deo Publishing). He has contributed essays to several anthologies including The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology, The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology and The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology (forthcoming).

• Justice and the Ecological Crisis by Kwa Kiem-Kiok

Kwa Kiem-Kiok took a long time to appreciate the significance of creation care, as little was mentioned in church or seminary. It was only when she was doing her doctoral studies at Asbury Theological Seminary in the US, that she learned about biblical and theological mandate for creation care. A lawyer by training she also soon realised that this mandate was part  of God's justice for the created world - people, flora and fauna - great and small. Now that she has been made aware, she seeks to live out that care and justice. She is slowly changing her lifestyle by using less and recycle more. Kiem-Kiok is married to a pastor in the Methodist Church and teaches at a seminary in Singapore. For leisure she enjoys listening to classical music and walking in the outdoors.

• The nature and Origin of Human Rights in Biblical Perspective by Richard Goetz

Richard Goetz is a professor of theology and ethics at TCA College in Singapore. He has a passion for learning and then sharing that knowledge, information and understanding with others, whether in the classroom or from the church pulpit. He firmly believes the way we think impacts how and what we believes, which in turn impacts what we do and the way we live our lives; in other words, theology and ethics are integrally linked. He studies and teaches widely in the areas of theology, ethics, apologetics, philosophy, and church history. Prior to coming to TCA in 2010, he taught in the US for 15 years, having earned his PhD in theology and ethics from Marquette university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He has also served in a variety of pastoral roles including youth, discipleship, and church plant lead pastor. He and his wife, Tammy, have been married for over 30 years and have two grown daughters. He enjoys spending time with his family, reading, exercising, and exploring.

• A Pastoral Response to Kwa and Goetz by Malcolm Tan

Malcolm T. H. Tan serves as Methodist Pastor since graduating from Trinity Theological College in 1984. He is the Pastor-in-Charge of Covenant Community Methodist Church (CCMC). Previously, he was Pastor-in-Charge of Faith Methodist Church and Barker Road Methodist Church, respectively. He has been a 'guest' Lecturer at Trinity Theological College, for more than 20 years, teaches various courses on World Religions, i.e. 'Indian Religions', 'Buddhism', 'Islam'. He is also Training Consultant with the Methodist Missions Society (MMS) teaching Methodist Doctrine to the younger Methodist or Wesleyan Churches in the Region. He earned his M.A. in Asia Pacific Studies (Dept. of East Asian Studies) University of Leeds. He is currently completing his PhD with NUS.

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