Faith

4 ways Singaporeans are doing good while staying home (and how you can too!)

Five steps forward, ten steps back, it seems. While we’re in Phase 2 (Heightened Alert) and not a full-blown circuit breaker, it’s enough for most of our daily routines to be interrupted...

Faith

The power of God and community during a quarantine

I was making my way out of school when I received a video message from my cell group leader. She briefly explained that one of our cell group members had contracted the resurgent COVID-19 virus....

Faith

#THIRSTBITES: Mentorship: Who are you walking with?

Many of us like to receive encouragement. We say, “Feed me, feed me, feed me!” But not many of us like to receive feedback — including me. The reason why we don’t like receiving...

Faith

A small act of kindness, a world of difference: 22-year-old Emily Yap on why she volunteers

Not every 22-year-old gets to collaborate with the National Youth Council (NYC) and Temasek Trust in volunteering work. Fewer still, get featured on The Straits Times and receive a commendation by...

Faith

Look how these Catholic High School boys are supporting one another in quarantine

It’s always a little more painful when we learn that a young child has contracted an illness as deadly as COVID-19.  For instance, news came in just last night (May 21) that there were 30 new...

Culture

15 ways you can pray for the Israel-Palestine crisis

Wondering what’s the latest on the Gaza conflict? As of yesterday (May 21), a ceasefire finally came into effect after 11 days of rockets and airstrikes that have claimed the lives of...

Health

“I was blind but now I see”: Finding God amid diabetes, blindness and kidney failure

When I was 10, my mother noticed ants crawling around the toilet bowl after I had used it. I had also suddenly become prone to fainting spells, and could not put on weight no matter how much I ate....

COVID-19

Will your love grow cold?

And so, like a glitch we’re all trapped in, Day 1 starts again today. Every time this happens to us, I think about a few things: How this resembles certain aspects of my life, where I can’t seem...

COVID-19

As a pastor in this trying time, I ask for grace

To all who are churchgoers: Be gracious to your pastors. In the span of two weeks I have had to make two major decisions with regards to church direction and I cannot imagine doing so without a...