Culture

Flamed for my faith: 7 points on persecution

Recently, two of my friends have come under a lot of fire for expressing their views on faith. They’re both younger than me — barely 25. The younger one of them took a lot of flak for...

Mental Health

My worth was in my weight – until I almost stopped eating altogether

About six years ago, I was diagnosed with an eating disorder at the age of 17. My weight loss was evident, and my eating habits raised concern from my family. Although eating disorders make one feel...

Culture

Shouldn’t you know better?

“You study the brain – shouldn’t you know better?” A friend who was a non-believer posed this question to me, after I had just shared about how I saw God moving in various areas of my life....

Culture

The pursuit of sexual purity

One of the struggles many dating Christians face is sexual intimacy. Our first encounter with our sexuality is probably when we hit puberty. That’s when our hormones start to fluctuate – leading...

Faith

Speak up: You don’t have to be charismatic or extraordinary

The Old Testament has 17 books that are named after prophets whom God chose to speak through, instead of speaking directly to His people. Yet some of us don’t believe that God could use us as His...

Culture

Standing up for the love I believe in

This is how I feel about the ongoing public debate about Section 377A: I feel like a student who had to study real hard for an examination, only to find that the paper had only one question. There is...

Faith

Advocacy means nothing without love

In the spirit of all that has been going on, I feel that we have to get one misconception out of the way quickly and early: God does not need us to defend Him — we only represent Him. By that, I...

Culture

My love affair with pornography

I am intimately familiar with sin. I was around 12 when I had my first experience of pornography, one which started a love affair that lasted more than a decade. Porn seemed to satisfy this deep and...

Culture

You could say nothing – but that says a lot

“Act blur, live longer.” That was the advice my cousin gave me when I started my tertiary education. When I repeated this to my classmates, they were awestruck by the simplicity and truth behind...