How-tos & Handles

How to use Google Hangouts for your online cell groups: One House, many (virtual) rooms

Are you one of those who has had to take your weekly worship services and cell group gatherings online? Let’s not give up meeting together when we can easily do this from our own rooms, thanks...

How-tos & Handles

How to use Zoom for your online cell groups: One House, many (virtual) rooms

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom has become a primary social platform for millions of people worldwide โ€“ from students to working professionals. But did you know that you can also use...

Real Life, Real People

When COVID-19 crashes your wedding

What were some of the challenges you faced?ย  Linus: Vivien and I are both frontline healthcare staff. So in the weeks leading up to our wedding in February, there was a real danger that we would get...

Worldview

What do we want to see at the end of our lives?

A recent conversation with a colleague got me thinking about life. She shared that her good friend recently passed away. As a responsible educator, this person devoted much of himself to work, often...

Life & Death

COVID-19 and the pit of despair: Death, mourning and the morning after

I wept. I donโ€™t know about you, but when I read the news that two people in Singapore โ€“ one elderly, one a foreigner โ€“ had succumbed to COVID-19, I cried. Driving down the expressway,...

Life & Death

Singapore COVID-19 deaths: The one article we never wanted to publish

Iโ€™m heartbroken because we have been praying for weeks now that we wouldnโ€™t ever have to publish something like this in our COVID-19 coverage. Yet today we must, because we owe it to our God to...

Church Life

If we can’t meet anymore, how do we do cell groups online?

Over the last one week, many churches have made the decision to suspend or decentralise services. In fact, it was announced yesterday that two huge Protestant denominations โ€“ Anglicans and...

Work

Do you work to rest, or rest to work?

I think all of us are familiar with the question: โ€œDo you live to eat, or eat to live?โ€ The answer reveals our true philosophy โ€“ what defines us. If we eat to live, then survival is our...

University

To leave or stay? Singaporean students overseas grapple with worsening global outbreak

Two days ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement to urge all overseas Singaporean students to return home, which caused many who are studying abroad to scramble for flights....