Dating

Falling in love with someone who struggled with SSA

I must confess that I grew up with a kind of grid for envisioning how my life and relationships would look like. At every stage, I thought I knew what I wanted and looked for in a man and in romance....

News

City Harvest’s Pastor Kong Hee released from jail

He’s free. City Harvest Church’s founding pastor Kong Hee was released this morning after being in jail for 2 years and 4 months. He turns 55 tomorrow.   As quickly as the media mob...

News

Hong Kong protests: When the streets I knew turned into turmoil

A couple Sundays ago, my husband, son, and I found ourselves in the vicinity of a protest march. It was in the neighbourhood I had grown up in, and I was amused watching crowds of people dressed in...

Worldview

What art taught me about all my mistakes in life

I have a love-hate relationship with art. You see, I flunked art almost every semester in primary and secondary school, and yet I became a film major in my polytechnic days. In essence, I spent three...

Personalities

When sons leave home: Former Hillsong writer Marty Sampson is losing his faith

“Time for some real talk… I’m genuinely losing my faith,” Marty Sampson wrote on his Instagram account yesterday, August 12, 2019. “And it doesn’t bother...

Worldview

What does it mean to love my country?

National Day is a good time to remember God’s goodness, whose hand has enabled Singapore to prosper. We’re the envy of many cities and nations. This time of reflection is especially...

Worldview

THIR.ST TALKS: What makes us uniquely Singaporean?

What do SGAG, Our Grandfather Story (OGS) and ieatishootipost have in common? They champion narratives that are uniquely Singaporean! From local humour to local stories and even local food, they are...

Worldview

A new “merdeka”: True freedom is found in dependence

I recently discovered that I am a product of the Merdeka Generation. When Singapore separated from Malaysia in 1965 and gained full independence as a nation – what they called merdeka, or freedom...

Worldview

Look no further, our mission first lies in this nation

This question came to mind one ordinary morning: If Jesus was birthed into the world He saved, why do we always hope to be supernaturally parachuted into our mission? I had been feeling dissatisfied...