Worldview

How should a Christian respond to injustice and social movements?

With all the disorder and unrest that’s going on in the world today, let’s take a look at Acts 19:23-41 where a huge riot breaks out in the city of Ephesus. In brief, after Paul has spent...

Real Life, Real People

A refugee’s story of racism and redemption

Max Jeganathan was less than 1-year-old when he and his parents had to flee Colombo, Sri Lanka on a cargo ship due to violent racial riots in 1983. Known as Black July, mobs of Sinhalese gangs...

Music

Freed from performance anxiety, I no longer had to pretend

There is a word in Japanese that summarises the deep problem I was facing: “足りない” (tarinai). In English, it means “not enough”, “insufficient” or “lacking”.  By all...

Movies & TV

Flower of Evil: Can you take a secret to the grave?

WARNING: SPOILERS UP TO EPISODE 12 (Any plot twists thereafter are not accounted for!) What happens when your deepest, darkest secret is brought to light? In the ongoing suspense thriller K-drama...

Worldview

How can a Christian navigate our hypersexualised culture?

We don’t ask a fish how wet they are because they don’t even know that they are wet. This is what John Stonestreet, President of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, often reminds us about...

Movies & TV

5 things I learnt from following football

There’s just something about the beautiful game, isn’t there? For 90 minutes every week, fans get to live vicariously through 11 men lucky enough to perform on one of life’s biggest, most...

Do Good

6 young adults launch local creation care initiative

Sitting across the table from me, Dennis Tan wears a shirt on which two trees are engaged in a lightsaber battle. Underneath the duelling trees is the phrase “May the forest be with you”, a pun...

Mental Health

Erasing the stigma of suicide: Nobody should have to struggle alone

When you hear the term “mental illness”, what’s the first image that pops into your mind?  For nearly half the participants in a 2017 study, this prompt conjured up negative impressions of...

Tech

Two youths start new online safe space for young Christians (guys especially!)

Nicole Soh, a polytechnic mass communications student, and Jakin Tan, currently in National Service, are the two young minds behind Philotimo. Launched on 15 April 2020, the Instagram page was...