Author: Zheluo Cai

Creation is enthralling and mysterious, and the wisdom of God remains perennially unfathomable. To know Him is to barely understand His heart, but to know myself, despite the many regrettable mistakes that have been made, is to understand the sufficiency of His grace, faithfulness, and lovingkindness. My enriching journey with Him took me through the halls of national service (the army), auditing, cross-cultural missionary service, church work, mentoring, psychology, and caregiving. Although now in retirement, I am still very much a learner at heart and an avid reader, and despite the smudges in life, I love it. Eternity then becomes a lifelong expectation.

The Uncreated Word

Posted on Sunday, 8 December, 2019Sunday, 8 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

John 1: 1 – 5. The introduction to the Gospel of John immediately confronts us with the mystery of the Trinity; God is One, nevertheless is three Persons – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (c.f., Deut 6:4; Isa 48:16b; Mark 12:29). The uniqueness of God’s fundamental nature

Eleven Toxic Avoidable Reasons Best Employees Leave

Posted on Sunday, 8 December, 2019Sunday, 8 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

In many companies, losing great talent isn’t hard, unfortunately. You probably know the typical reasons why valuable employees leave –a terrible boss, being underpaid, feeling disrespected, simply getting a better opportunity– but the more silently ominous signs warrant attention too. I interviewed many talented employees for my book Find the Fire on what made them leave their

Artificial Neurons To Fight Disease

Posted on Saturday, 7 December, 2019Saturday, 7 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

Scientists have made artificial nerve cells, paving the way for new ways to repair the human body. The tiny “brain chips” behave like the real thing and could one day be used to treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s. A team from the University of Bath used a combination of maths,

Mesa Verdi National Park

Posted on Saturday, 7 December, 2019Saturday, 7 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

At Mesa Verde (Spanish for “green table”), Colorado, multi-storied dwellings fill the cliff-rock alcoves that rise 2,000 feet above Montezuma Valley. Remarkably preserved, the cliff dwellings cluster in canyons that slice the mesa into narrow tablelands. Here, and on the mesa top, archaeologists have located more than 4,800 archaeological sites (including

Vietnam Boats Using Child Labour For Illegal Fishing

Vietnamese Child Labour Used For Illegal Fishing

Posted on Friday, 6 December, 2019Friday, 6 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

Children as young as 11 are working aboard Vietnamese vessels fishing illegally for seafood that could end up on sale in supermarkets in the EU and US, according to an investigation by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF). The children were discovered on boats detained by Thai authorities for fishing illegally

Messier 22

Posted on Friday, 6 December, 2019Friday, 6 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

M22 is a globular cluster located near the Milky Way bulge, the tightly packed group of stars near the galactic centre. It is also known as NGC 6656, GCl 99, C 1833-239, MWSC 2961, Lacaille I.12 and lies in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius and is one of the

Global Freedom Of Expression At Ten-Year Low

Posted on Thursday, 5 December, 2019Thursday, 5 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

Freedom of expression has reached a ten-year low around the world, according to new research urging governments to “take action to reverse this trend.” Increases in threats made towards journalists and in “digital authoritarianism,” wherein governments increase online surveillance and clamp down on content, have contributed to the downward trend,

Takeda’s Dengue Vaccine Shows Promise

Posted on Thursday, 5 December, 2019Thursday, 5 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

Scientists are making progress in developing new weapons against dengue, a debilitating mosquito-borne virus that threatens half the world’s population. Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. released data from a sizeable late-stage study Saturday showing that its experimental dengue vaccine was highly effective in preventing children from dengue illnesses and hospitalization overall from four

Climate Crisis: What Is COP?

Posted on Wednesday, 4 December, 2019Wednesday, 4 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

As the 25th summit of the UN’s conference of the parties begins, we examine whether it works – and what the future holds. What is COP – and how will it help? For almost three decades, world governments have met every year to forge a global response to the climate

How We Could Sleep Better In Less Time

Posted on Wednesday, 4 December, 2019Wednesday, 4 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

We often wear our sleeplessness as a badge of pride – a measure of our impossibly hectic schedules. Thomas Edison, Margaret Thatcher, Martha Stewart and Donald Trump have all famously claimed to get by on just four or five hours’ sleep a night – much less than the seven-to-nine hours recommended to most adults.

Zimbabwe On Verge Of Starvation

Posted on Tuesday, 3 December, 2019Tuesday, 3 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

Zimbabwe is on the brink of manmade starvation with close to 60% of the population now food insecure, a UN envoy has said. Hilal Elver, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, said the situation was likely to escalate political instability in the southern African nation. After an 11-day

Ten Traditional Winter Festivals In Europe

Posted on Tuesday, 3 December, 2019Tuesday, 3 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

St. Nicholas is believed to have been born to a Greek family in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) in the 3rd century AD. He was said to have travelled to Palestine and Egypt, and to have been the Bishop of Myra in the 4th century. Tradition has it that he attended

Sharron Maasz’s Death Shows Why Domestic Abuse Services Are Vital

Posted on Monday, 2 December, 2019Monday, 2 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

I first came across Sharron Maasz in January this year when I watched her being interviewed on a number of videos on YouTube. I discovered them after hearing that a woman had died in accommodation designated for women experiencing homelessness in my home city of Oxford. Sharron was 44 years

Great Barrier Reef Close To Be Included on In-Danger List

Posted on Monday, 2 December, 2019Monday, 2 December, 2019 by Zheluo Cai

Conservationists say an official government report to the UN’s World Heritage Committee to be released next week must show Australia has fresh plans to attack the Great Barrier Reef’s two key threats – climate change and water quality. At a forum earlier this month environment ministers signed-off on the “state