Worldview

To my fellow Christian introverts: The struggle is real, I know

After reading this piece, an extrovert had something to add, as always. Read To my fellow Christian extroverts: The struggle is real, I know. We’re made introverted for a reason. It’s not...

Worldview

Let’s talk about sex: When is safe sex really safe?

It depends. What do you hope to achieve? What’s the end-goal? If your point of view is that teenagers will be teenagers, with hormones oozing out of every pore and their brains barely contained...

Worldview

How, then, shall we Instagram?

We were sitting in a crowded café in downtown Seoul. It was our last day in Korea. The weather was great. There were still places in our itinerary that we hadn’t visited. Yet we just sat in the...

Surveys & Reports

We’ve achieved greatness – now to aim for goodness

We’re the best! After putting more than half a million 15-year-olds across 72 countries through a bunch of tests – as if they didn’t have enough to sit through, the poor things –...

Church Life

Serving in the spotlight: The youth worship leader

BRIAN NG is a worship leader in Hope Singapore who also leads the Junior College students in Ablaze, the church’s youth congregation. He is also a TCP Productions artiste and has appeared in...

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...

Worldview

Reimagining the Singaporean dream

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” – Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays We worry. Because the average Joe is...