I was finishing up my work day when my phone rang. The voice on the other end was distraught. “Your brother is gone.” For some reason, these words from my mum didn’t quite register. I would...
We live in a terribly noisy world. Most days, we wake up only to face a bombardment of notifications – emails, social media posts, text messages… the works. It seems as if there is always...
I first fell for porn at 11 years old. A few classmates started talking about it after we had sex education classes. Out of curiosity, I searched for it myself. Then I got hooked. I stole a look at...
This was a response written to a story we ran earlier this month: “There are more like Jarrid: Why I’m breaking the silence at 30”. Last Friday night, I skipped cell group and headed...
“I want to offer an insider’s view of what it is like to be suicidal. To try to help you understand what it is like and how does a person get to that place.” Speaking at the Samaritans of...
When I was studying in China, there were many occasions when sales assistants would just ignore me whenever I walked into shops or boutiques around my university. When they did take notice of me,...
It’s strange looking back and realising just how much my Christian life was driven by my struggle with pornography. I can’t remember the number of times I would masturbate on a Saturday night,...
“I remember that evening when my depression actually emerged in a very conscious way,” said Dr Tan Soo Inn, chairman of Graceworks, at The Church and Mental Wholeness Conference last week. He...
When coming into contact with someone at risk, the last thing you’d want is for that person to feel like we’re pushing them away. But what if, unknowingly, our words or actions end up making a...