On Friday, October 18, I woke to the smell of burning tyres. The shabaab, or young men, of my city had blocked the main square and key road junctions with barricades and set them alight. Banks and...
In May this year, I worshipped in the midst of a congregation under police guard for the first time in my life. It was not in Singapore, but in Jerusalem. A group had gathered to protest and disrupt...
Your personal opinion of Barack Obama may vary, but the former President of the United States was spot-on when he called out the prevalent culture of the day. Mr Obama derided “call-out culture”...
To develop a Christian perspective on climate change, two things are needed. The Bible: We first need to have a sound theology that is informed by scripture. A pair of binoculars: If we want to...
There is a crescendoing cry for justice and change in almost every part of the world. Our headlines are increasingly dominated by the social injustices in our communities, accompanied by movements...
My dad is an environmentalist and I grew up slightly averse to all this creation care jargon. After all, this was “the work that took my father away”. As a follow-up to the previous article I...
This year’s MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) concluded earlier this morning and the biggest prize of the night – Video of the Year – went to Taylor Swift for her Pride-themed video “You...
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....
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...