Surveys & Reports

2021’s Verse of the Year and the fastest-growing search term… sorcery?!

The world’s most popular Bible app, YouVersion, has just released its Verse of the Year for 2021. This year, the verse that users most engaged with in terms of shares, bookmarks and highlights on...

Outreach

One For Jesus: Can you bring 1 person to Christ if you have 10 years to do that?

1/10. Do you think you can bring 1 person to Christ if given 10 years to do so?  That was the question that tugged at the heart of Jason Wong, the founder of Yellow Ribbon Project and Dads for Life,...

Movies & TV

Netflix’s Arcane: Lessons on wisdom, change and love

Warning: Spoilers ahead! “In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good.” League of Legends spin-off series Arcane has hit all the right notes with streaming audiences, setting the record as...

Surveys & Reports

Where do you find meaning in life?

American think tank Pew Research Center released some fascinating findings last week (November 18) that looked at where people around the world find meaning in life. Having surveyed nearly 19,000...

Tech

“Put my verse into the meta”: This Christian artist is using NFTs to spread the gospel

What do virtual worlds, astronaut sheep and tulips have in common? Give up?  The metaverse. Some of you might be thinking right now: “meta-what?”. And some of you might be thinking: “Oh, that...

Movies & TV

The Wheel of Time: Is it worth your time?

It’s about time. Those were my first thoughts when I heard about the TV series production of The Wheel of Time (WoT). The high fantasy series by Robert Jordan is one of the bestselling fantasy...

Worldview

Social justice: Why critical theory clashes with the Christian worldview

Justice. The driving force of various historical movements seeking change. A topic discussed by philosophers past and present. An idea that has taken on many different forms, the latest of which is...

Outreach

星望时代 Shin SG rolls out digital content for Chinese churches

I remember the first time I shared about Jesus in Mandarin. I was around 14 then and new to the faith. I had heard of how wonderful Heaven would be – a huge city of pure gold where there will be no...

Worldview

Social justice and being woke: Making sense of modern movements

Woke: adjective, informal Definition: alert to injustice in society, especially racism. Example: “We need to stay angry, and stay woke.” Depending on the social context, you can either be...