Real Life, Real People

When COVID-19 crashes your wedding

What were some of the challenges you faced?  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 don’t know about you, but when I read the news that two people in Singapore – one elderly, one a foreigner – 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

I’m heartbroken because we have been praying for weeks now that we wouldn’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 – Anglicans and...

Work

Do you work to rest, or rest to work?

I think all of us are familiar with the question: “Do you live to eat, or eat to live?” The answer reveals our true philosophy – 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....

Church Life

Church, we may have to meet in houses

The COVID-19 public health crisis is compelling us to rethink how we do Church. Already, many churches have had to set up a livestreaming service from scratch, so that church members can participate...

Music

Raise a hallelujah: 6 Spotify playlists for times like these

Trade your fears for some good ol’ tunes of praise! Whether it’s to give your faith a little boost or to amp up much-needed peace for our hearts, there’s nothing like the perfect...