Finding Purpose

Why be like everyone else? Just be you

Let’s say you’ve just entered a room. You don’t know anyone there. So you spend a bit of time observing everyone. How they move. When they speak. Where they stop. Their facial...

Culture

Ever felt like a foreigner in your own country?

I’m sure that many of those who are reading this article now attend Singaporean churches, where everyone speaks Singlish or some variant of Standard Singaporean English. But where I worship,...

Real Life, Real People

Shout His name from the rooftops

Three years ago, when my partner Lionel and I first walked onto the rooftop carpark on the 6th floor of People’s Park Complex, it was a complete wasteland. It smelled of death/sex/drugs. It...

Culture

Winning the battle against Murphy’s Law

Have you ever had one of those days where everything that can go wrong goes wrong? You wake up 30 minutes late for work. You’re in panic mode; you’re out of the house in record speed. You...

News

Bieber on a Mumbai bus

He is one of the world’s biggest stars, and often in the headlines for the wrong reasons. But while Justin Bieber is often portrayed living life in the lap of luxury, he was photographed recently...

Worldview

Should you get a tattoo? Here’s how I made up my mind

I’ve always thought tattoos stood for something beautiful. A permanent and unchangeable mark of a decision made – a sign that you stood for something, believed in it so much that you had to...

Health

Faith and fitspo: When are we merely worshipping golden calves?

Fitness, once culturally confined to small communities of professional strength sports, bodybuilding, track and field, is now accessible to the white-collar worker, housewife and kid next door....

Worldview

The counter-cultural Christian

So you say you’re a Christian. So what? What difference does your being a Christian make? How different is the life you are living – whether it is the person you are or the things you do –...

News

From a hospital in Tokyo, an urgent cry for help

Maybe you’ve seen this appeal on your Facebook feed: Please help me bring my father home. You may have trouble accessing the link, possibly due to heavy traffic to the site. In short: The...