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Worldview

The Christian and submission to governing authorities

This is a response to Shuin Jian’s article on “How should a Christian respond to injustice and social movements?”. I would like to bring up another topic which has been extremely...

Worldview

How should a Christian respond to injustice and social movements?

With all the disorder and unrest that’s going on in the world today, let’s take a look at Acts 19:23-41 where a huge riot breaks out in the city of Ephesus. In brief, after Paul has spent...

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6 young adults launch local creation care initiative

Sitting across the table from me, Dennis Tan wears a shirt on which two trees are engaged in a lightsaber battle. Underneath the duelling trees is the phrase “May the forest be with you”, a pun...

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“Today, they are our friends!” How a ground-up initiative to bless migrant workers was birthed

“If you love me, feed my sheep!” These words (John 21:17) reverberated in Figin Seng’s mind as she read about the plight of Singapore’s migrant workers earlier this year. With the sudden...

Faith

What I learnt about doing good when a stranger opened his home to me

I first met Uncle Z on a cool November night after an exhausting trip involving no fewer than three plane rides followed by a five-hour drive. He was waiting outside my apartment in his trademark...

Faith

What I learnt from volunteering with migrant workers as a digital ambassador

For a period of four weeks between June and July 2020, I volunteered with TOUCH International as a digital ambassador at the migrant worker dormitories. This was part of an overall effort to...

Faith

Growing up, I thought I was never enough

Never enough. That’s probably the best summation of me. Not in a self-deprecating manner; it’s just that I never had the flair for much. Compared to many of my multi-talented friends...

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What loving our migrant workers looks like from the eyes of 2 ordinary Singaporeans

In light of the struggles our migrant worker brothers and sisters have been facing, especially in recent months owing to COVID-19, I wanted to find out more about what is being done to serve them in...

Culture

In a crowd of noise, let’s lend a thoughtful voice

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” This quote by retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been making its rounds online as we see...