Articles by

Lang Tien

Outreach

The Picture Bible That Could: How 1 comic book changed the lives of 2 people (and counting!)

My maternal grandmother in the Philippines passed away earlier this year. Thanks to COVID-19, I wasn’t able to see her one last time or even attend her funeral. But I wish I had the chance to tell...

Tech

Video game addiction: 3 tips for healthy play

The issue of gaming addiction has come to the fore once again. First, the news of a 14-year-old boy who killed his father by stabbing him in the neck with a fruit knife. It was reported that he was...

Mental Health

What cycling taught me about moving forward

The last two years have been the hardest years of my life. I’ve lost a parent to cancer, an unborn child due to miscarriage, a job in church that I thought I was going to do till the day I needed...

Mental Health

“Are we okay?” Pastor Daniel Khong opens up about his mental health struggles at Summit 2022

The last two years have not been great because I went through my own struggle with emotions.  For myself, it was a bit of a double whammy. Naturally, the pandemic brought a lot of changes. But the...

Culture

The Church needs to pay attention to these 7 global shifts

In the midst of all the chaos that was the past two years, it’s easy to miss the forest for the trees. Dare we ask: what’s the bigger picture, the grander narrative, God’s Kingdom plan in light...

Faith

Wanna become spiritually fit? Start small to go big

You’ve heard it before: New Year’s resolutions are doomed to fail. And of course, what are the most popular New Year’s resolutions every year? They all have something to do with exercising more...

Movies & TV

The Matrix Resurrections: What happens when we reduce our choices in life into binaries?

Right/Wrong Life/Death Employed/Unemployed Male/Female Yin/Yang Heaven/Hell We live in a world of binaries.  Many of our choices in life can be reduced to binaries. To study, or not to study today....

Christmas

When Christmas isn’t so merry

There’s this Christmas song that keeps popping up in the background of one of the episodes of the new Hawkeye series. It goes like this: “It’s the most wonderful time of the year With...

Apologetics

The Multiverse: An in-depth look into pop culture’s latest fixation

Friendly neighbourhood warning: Minor spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home ahead! Once upon a time, finding out that your favourite movie superheroes existed in the same “universe” was...