Discipleship

What next after prayer? Isaac Ong on taking ownership as young people in Singapore

On the night of the River Valley High School tragedy, an online prayer rally was held for the nation and generation. During the meeting, Isaac Ong from the impossible413 team spoke about spiritual...

How-tos & Handles

How can we grieve well?

Every day, we will hear and witness death around us. It is normal for us to grieve, especially when our loved ones die. Yet, grief can be debilitating and incapacitating. Grief can rob one of the...

Mental Health

Struck down but not destroyed: Lessons on life from a Perepat tree

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” These words of the Apostle Paul in 2...

Mental Health

A plea to news editors: Don’t cover suicide like any other news story

There is an unwritten rule that the media in Singapore, apart from the tabloid press, has observed for many years: Not to report on suicides and suicide attempts apart from annual figures or...

Mental Health

How to deal with trauma after a life-threatening event

In 2017, I was blessed with the opportunity to go to London alone for five months on a university exchange programme. It was truly a memorable period of time, being able to learn about a new culture,...

Mental Health

Worrying suicide trends, more people seeking help: SOS

COVID-19 has made for unprecedented levels of distress in society, which have resulted in suicide trends that are deeply concerning. Just today, it was also reported that the 16-year-old River Valley...

COVID-19

How COVID-19 casts a magnifying glass on life

Through this recent KTV cluster, I feel that God is revealing to me that COVID-19 has been nothing short of a magnifying glass. Rather than focusing on the magnifying glass (COVID-19), we ought to...

COVID-19

Dear Singapore, what now after pointing fingers?

I’ve got to admit, my first response to hearing about the growing KTV cluster was one of anger and disappointment. You know, it’s the feeling you get in primary school when you can’t be...

Mental Health

Tackling mental health: Bishop Emeritus Dr Robert Solomon on why we need science and religion

How does a lack of faith impact one’s mental health? How can you discern between the work of the devil and mental illness?  Questions like these were explored on the first day of the inaugural...