He was my best friend. We had known each other for five years. At that time, both of us were the most senior Ph.D students in the laboratory. We started a secret relationship without the knowledge of...
This might be a picture that has been painted of a pastor’s wife: Sitting quietly beside her husband in the front row at church service, usually with the kids in tow (and in check). They are...
I listened to Josh Yeoh’s and Jonathan Cho’s new single, Light / Dust, for the first time whilst I was on vacation, cruising down the Australian coast sometime last year. A dear friend had gotten...
It was 2017, the day after Christmas. The Thir.st team had gathered at my place for lunch, and we were in the midst of playing a game when my phone suddenly rang. It was my friend Aaron’s...
Creatives tend to get a bad rep for being difficult, emotional, unpredictable and, on occasion, a nightmare of pride and/or insecurity. All of which I have been accused of (not unrightfully), so that...
I got married recently. Made my vows. The quality of a marriage is not determined by the vows that are made on the wedding day but by a lifetime of intentionality, devoted to living up to the...
When the life of someone close to you flickers away, all sorts of questions will course through your mind. God, if You are good – why didn’t you save her? Couldn’t you have let her live...
“I don’t think I can go to church with you,” I remember my friend telling me as we were walking back from school. “I’m not holy enough.” “I can’t...
I started using social media when I was 12, which was already considered late as many of my friends and classmates were already active on several platforms. I didn’t want to be left out of the...