Articles by

Joanne Kwok

Christmas

Want to give the perfect Christmas gift? Here’s how

We’re all well acquainted with the mixed feelings that surge through our spirits as December peeks around the corner. Mixed, because even without the cosiness of firelit, snow-covered houses...

Christmas

Peace out, 2016

2016 has been a difficult year for some – not me specifically, but about the World; humankind. I just Googled “major events that took place in 2016” and these are just some of the things I...

Finding Purpose

If you cannot feed a hundred people, just feed one

I saw myself on stage, standing in front of hundreds, maybe thousands of people. I never told anyone, but I wanted to do big things for Jesus and I thought I knew what that looked like. I could see...

Discipleship

All who are thirsty

Everyone thirsts. It is that deep, raw, sometimes torturous feeling of being parched; a pain so central to the human experience that no man is excused from it. It has become so commonplace that I’m...

Workplace

Should I quit my job?

Yes you should! Right now! Obviously, you wouldn’t accept that as an answer. Not from me anyway – someone who hardly knows you. I struggled with that question more than a year ago. And I quit...

Discipleship

I’ve got cats and dogs – but I’m the one who refuses to be tamed

As I was about to leave the house for dinner, I heard the distinct meow of my cat – from the drain outside my house. I shone my phone’s flashlight into the drain but saw nothing. After some time...

Studies & NS

So, you think you have NO talent at all?

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made...

Worldview

Injustice is our problem: Why indifference is not an option

Have you been bullied in school or witnessed someone getting bullied? I have. Have you met employees who have been unfairly treated – not paid their hard-earned wages, not given adequate rest,...

Culture

You are beautiful, and you don’t need a Dove ad to tell you that

I love body positivity campaigns. Part of it is the fact that I’m from the creative communications industry, where being able to sell things that matter to people who really need them – such as...