Friendship

What am I worth if I can’t keep my friendships?

When I was very young, my parents parted ways. Though my mum remarried, I still never got to experience what growing up in a stable family is like. Essentially, I’ve never had parental figures...

Discipleship

Wash your hands

This is the instruction that we are given every day since the start of this terrible COVID-19 pandemic. Washing our hands is one of the important actions that all of us must strictly observe to stem...

COVID-19

I feel sorry for your generation

Pandemic! Recession! This kind of double-whammy probably happens once every 100 years. Congratulations, you’re growing up in one. You may have already begun to feel the impact. You’re stuck at...

Surveys & Reports

COVID-19 and young Christians: How well have we weathered this storm?

Youths aged 18-25 fared the worst in emotional health during the Circuit Breaker, according to findings from our recent survey which aimed to understand how Christians in Singapore are coping with...

University

Dear 2020 graduate, I feel you

One of my fondest memories of celebration is not my own. It was the day of the historic World Cup match between Germany and Brazil in 2014. I was on a Lufthansa plane and about to arrive in...

Music

Birthed in the circuit breaker, these #songsofhope remind us that things are going to be alright

At the start of May, the Awaken Generation worship collective and Thir.st put out a call for songwriters to release new songs for a world desperately in need of hope. Since then, we’ve seen our...

Do Good

I Go For You (让我来): A way to love the elderly near you

A few weeks after writing Circuit breaker: Don’t forget our grandparents, I’ve found a new initiative that offers us the chance to help seniors who are living alone. Launched to support...

Work

Working from home: Where is God in all of this?

For as long as I can remember, being able to work from home feels like winning the lottery. For that reason, I thought it would be a walk in the park after the nation-wide directive was given. The...

Friendship

10 ways to build an intentional friendship

Throughout the circuit breaker, I’ve grown more comfortable being by myself. As I become more absorbed into my own personal space, finishing my tasks for the day and switching off with Netflix,...