Worldview

How should a Christian respond to injustice and social movements?

With all the disorder and unrest thatā€™s going on in the world today, letā€™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 refugeeā€™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: ā€œč¶³ć‚ŠćŖ恄ā€ (tarinai). In English, it means ā€œnot enoughā€, ā€œinsufficientā€ or ā€œlackingā€.  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 donā€™t ask a fish how wet they are because they donā€™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

Thereā€™s just something about the beautiful game, isnā€™t there? For 90 minutes every week, fans get to live vicariously through 11 men lucky enough to perform on one of lifeā€™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 ā€œMay the forest be with youā€, a pun...

Mental Health

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

When you hear the term ā€œmental illnessā€, whatā€™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...