Articles by

Gabriel Ong

Culture

Are you a fear superspreader?

I wonder if you do something like this or can relate: Breaking news comes in about the coronavirus, e.g. a new variant was detected at a mall you and your family had just visited a week ago. You rush...

Faith

Look how these Catholic High School boys are supporting one another in quarantine

It’s always a little more painful when we learn that a young child has contracted an illness as deadly as COVID-19.  For instance, news came in just last night (May 21) that there were 30 new...

Culture

Making sense of what’s going on in the Israel-Palestine conflict

Two weeks into the fighting, with over 200 dead… I don’t even know where to begin when it comes to the conflict that’s happening between Israel and Palestine. The fighting in the...

COVID-19

As a pastor in this trying time, I ask for grace

To all who are churchgoers: Be gracious to your pastors. In the span of two weeks I have had to make two major decisions with regards to church direction and I cannot imagine doing so without a...

Culture

Tired of being wired? How device fatigue is decaying friendships

You don’t have to look far to find articles about how the coronavirus has fundamentally changed the way we use devices. Work-from-home and remote arrangements mean that devices and screens are...

Missions

Daryl and Gina: A couple called to two different countries

She spent a year befriending women in the red light district of a Chinese city, hoping to be a bearer of God’s eternal light; while he served on the fringes of Thailand for four years at a shelter...

Faith

Facing down the doubts of my faith

When I was 16, my classmate who was an atheist shared a post which appeared on my social media feed. The post said that according to the Bible, one was not allowed to eat pork and shellfish...

Faith

“You can’t stop pain and tears from coming, but you can keep joy from going,” says John Piper

Does joy follow suffering? Or is there joy within suffering? For Pastor John Piper, those are natural questions to ask because every human being will experience both of them.  Speaking at the online...

University

Struggling through university, all I saw were D grades

At last, the final chapter in my educational journey – university! It never crossed my mind that the magnitude of my struggle would be this immense in my last stage of education. Back in my first...