Real Life, Real People

Havoc and wild, I was backsliding until I took a leap of faith

There wasn’t much about God or Christianity when I was growing up.  My mum believed in another religion and my dad was a Christian who had backslid. At the time, I wasn’t very close to my family...

Faith

How God took me from paiseh to prayer warrior

How many more opportunities will you let slip away? That was the question which hit me in the circuit breaker, as the busyness and noise of the days before faded away. God then began to remind me of...

Faith

Has Christianity become too convenient?

“Some people will choose not to return to church, instead choosing the god of comfort.” I heard a guest pastor say something to that effect some weeks back during an online meeting, with...

Surveys & Reports

Are younger or older Christians more likely to return to physical church?

After more than three months of church services not being held physically, how do Christians feel about the online church experience? Have they stayed connected to the same communities they were part...

Work

Taking stock with Chuttersnap’s Klaus Tan: Photography with a different angle in mind

Everyone has hobbies. But not all hobbies make you a globally recognised talent. 20-year-old Klaus Tan, better known as Chuttersnap within the photography community, is one such example. Picking up...

Relationships

Seeing my struggles, a teacher taught me the most important lesson I would ever learn

My parents were divorced when I was 10. It felt like a relief then because my dad was impulsive, brash, and hot-tempered. He had a hard time providing for our family of six and even so, he drank,...

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

The God who is near: Finding salvation in a time of social distancing

On February 16, 2020, a dear friend, J, suddenly called me to catch up. I felt prompted to pray for her before we met. I had, in fact, been praying for her for three years since I was baptised in...