Articles by

Joanne Kwok

Christmas

The dirty, messy manger: God’s message to humanity

Singaporeans might find this hard to imagine, but there’s something about the birthplace of Jesus that speaks so loudly of the Saviour we serve. If we teleport ourselves back to the night Jesus...

Christmas

This Christmas, take a Sabbath from sadness

There’s two kinds of Christmas stories: The ones where we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, our loved ones and families, all the good warm fuzzy things that come with the season; and the...

Christmas

The other side of Christmas

Truth be told, this year I don’t feel altogether “christmassy”. The week preceding Christmas has been laden with happenings that brought much discouragement and disappointment. I...

Relationships

Am I still significant without a significant other?

Names have been changed for privacy. Several years back, a girl called Stephanie and I worked together on a children’s camp for Church. Having only just moved on from a broken heart not too while...

Faith

Freely my father gave, even after he lost his job

From a young age, giving was always inculcated in our family. My dad would give my siblings and I a $1 coin each to put into the offering bag at Sunday school in Church. Every time we went to a...

Relationships

The God of irreconcilable differences

There is no way we can save this. No hope that we’ll ever work out our problems. We’re too different. Too far gone. We just have to accept it as irretrievable. Unfixable. One too many...

Health

Calm my raging heart

In April this year, I found out that I had a tumour growing from my nerve cells on the right side of my spine. Fear was a very real thing in my heart that caused me to question what would happen to...

Faith

An arts festival with purpose: Make room for the displaced this Christmas

Places are significant. Whether it be an actual physical space like our homes, a seat at the dinner table, or something less tangible like having a place in someone’s heart, we all appreciate it...

Faith

Running for HOME: The race for social justice for domestic workers

It all started after graduation this year, when my good friend Isabel and I decided to courageously fly ourselves to Tiruchirappalli, India, to visit our migrant worker friends back in their own...