Articles by

Gabriel Ong

Discipleship

Vacation deprived? Now’s a good time to unpack our wanderlust

Spend any amount of time with friends in conversation or on social media, and one topic’s bound to come up: travel. You can see it in the #throwback posts and pictures of exotic locales. You...

Worldview

The Christian and submission to governing authorities

This is a response to Shuin Jian’s article on “How should a Christian respond to injustice and social movements?”. I would like to bring up another topic which has been extremely...

Workplace

From fear to faith: My journey of serving in a COVID-19 ICU

It was about a week before the first COVID-19 case in Singapore, when my nurse manager assigned me to be part of the COVID-19 ICU nursing team in Singapore General Hospital. It was the first such...

Surveys & Reports

Millennials in the US are rejecting the faith. Are we seeing this happening here?

Last week, there was a study released in the US that looked at the Millennial generation and their worldviews.  Here are a few points that stood out, according to an annual survey conducted in...

Marriage

Amidst a pandemic, we struggled to plan our wedding and find a flat

Planning for our wedding and searching for a house in the midst of COVID-19 has been extremely stressful.  We initially planned for a large-scale church and banquet wedding. However, we were worried...

Tech

The Social Dilemma: A take from someone who’s come off social media

Sitting comfortably at #3 on Netflix for some time, The Social Dilemma (TSD) is probably the single best thing I’ve watched on the streaming platform all year.  It’s a documentary that...

Worldview

How should a Christian respond to injustice and social movements?

With all the disorder and unrest that’s going on in the world today, let’s take a look at Acts 19:23-41 where a huge riot breaks out in the city of Ephesus. In brief, after Paul has spent...

Finding Purpose

Why must I keep waiting?

Between the years 2013 and 2016, after my resignation as a school teacher, I entered a season of the wilderness when I was recovering from a burnout. Going from the fast pace of the teaching service...

Mental Health

The girl with a morbid fascination for death

I developed a love for reading in primary 5. It started with innocent children’s books, before I turned to magic and fantasy. Then I read this goth novel in primary 6 that became the catalyst...