Worldview

Culture

The call to come home

“You Christians talk about God’s love all the time: But where is that love for people like us?” Someone struggling with same-sex attraction once asked the person who had just...

Culture

A Christian activist’s take on thinking critically and wrestling with faith

Abortion. Intersectionality. Environmental conservation. Gender equality. These days, I don’t have to look very far for my beliefs to be thrown into crisis. Reading the news, scrolling through...

Culture

Confessions of a former bully

I was quite the manipulator as a kid. I remember manipulating my cousins to turn against another cousin of mine, Angela. Angela was a very sweet girl, soft-spoken gentle and easygoing … But I...

Faith

The danger of pride

It took quite some time for me to realise how big a problem pride had become in my life. I suppose it started with the little things: Serving actively in Church and elsewhere in a Christian...

Culture

The lies we believe about poverty

There was once I was catching up with a couple of friends in Jakarta when we ended up talking about the state of poverty in Southeast Asia and the possible issues we noticed. Impassioned by the...

Relationships

That forever kind of love

What is love? To be loved but not feel loved. Is that still love? Most of us love only in our own definition of love, the way we personally receive and understand love to look like. We speak...

Culture

How do I love myself if I hate my body?

“She’s fat!” “She’s so quiet!” “No one will ever like her …” Whispers filled the car while the young girl glanced out the window with tears filling her eyes, pretending she didn’t...

Relationships

Children of divorce, how will we win the fight?

“She’s okay what. Look at her. Does she not look okay?” When my parents’ divorce was finalised and the relatives were informed, I was a topic of discussion at the lunch table. Not fully...

Culture

Why should women have to submit to men?

Someone recently called me a feminazi. That made me stop to think. I realised that given how vocal and opinionated I am as a person … I probably shouldn’t be surprised if others think...