Articles by

Gabriel Ong

Singlehood

One and whole: How I learned to love being single

One evening, as an introductory question to our Bible study session, our happily married leader asked the singles in our group to share why we were still single. The answers thrown out were along the...

Workplace

What I’ve learnt from the best teacher in the world

You’ve probably heard before that teaching is a profession that transforms the next generation. But few like me would have the privilege of seeing how teaching transforms the teacher. I am married...

Friendship

The answer is love: How I stopped jumping to judgment and anger

I was born and raised in a Christian home with parents who brought me to church and Sunday School every week. I had heard stories from the Bible and about Jesus from a young age. I grew up attending...

Marriage

Jacob and Jaclyn: Extending hospitality amidst pain

It was two weeks before the wedding and everything was running like clockwork — just as how Jacob and Jaclyn Lau had expected. Renovations for their new home were underway. Jaclyn’s elder sister,...

News

How can we pray for Afghanistan?

This sentence took hours. Honestly, I didn’t know how to begin this article. Have you seen the images and videos of Afghans falling from the sky? They had clung on to aircraft, even though...

Dating

30+, single, and trying not to settle

Online dating in one’s 30s is not for the faint-hearted. Repeating answers to the same few questions for months on end, labouring to shape an organic conversation out of a vacuum, doing my best not...

Illness

What going (almost) blind taught me

At the end of July last year, I underwent an operation to halt vision loss in my right eye. In crude terms, the operation involves the surgeon cutting a small slit in my eye to reduce its pressure....

Life & Death

Losing my mum to cancer: Seeing the good (and God) in suffering

I lost my mother to cancer last July. She was only 60. She was first diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer in her adrenal gland in 2012. We were thankful then that the cancer was discovered...

Outreach

See this island… united, regardless of generation

We come into this year’s National Day against the backdrop of much tumult: the pandemic rages on and the incident at River Valley High School is still fresh in our minds. Yet we have much to thank...