Worldview

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,...

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...

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 –...

Worldview

I thought Science was supposed to point to Truth – not march in the opposite direction

In the wake of the Trump administration’s defunding of scientific research and ignorance-based policies, the people stirred. Like the women who marched before, Earth Day provided the clarion...

Worldview

How separate should Church and State be?

Some people say the church’s vocal stance towards public policy and legislation is an adulteration of Jesus’ teachings. Jesus, after all, transformed culture bottom-up, rather than top-down. In...

Outreach

Sharing the Gospel in a multi-religious society

The recent incident involving the imam who was fined $4,000 for making a supplication during a Friday prayer, “Grant us help against the Jews and the Christians”, is a reminder of the strict...

Apologetics

The paradox of Millennial “spirituality”

It’s said that we fear what we don’t understand. For Singaporean Millennials, it seems that fear has grown into avoidance, with more youths shunning religion of late. The reality is...

Worldview

Men, women and abortion

I hear so many people repeating the idea that abortion is a “woman’s right” and that others should not interfere with a woman’s “right to choose”. Abortion is promoted in...