News

Last COVID-19 patient in Grace Assembly of God cluster discharged

Case 53, the last COVID-19 patient linked to the Grace Assembly of God cluster, has been discharged. In a press released issued yesterday night (March 14), the Ministry of Health announced that...

Tech

Digital discipleship: 3 ways to take the gospel online

In light of recent developments, the way we do church will have to evolve. And I don’t mean scaling back our ministries, because the gospel is more relevant than ever in these dark times. On...

News

“Below 250 participants where possible”: Church leaders respond to latest advisory on social distancing

Most of the churches Thir.st spoke to are making plans to adjust their worship services in response to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s address to the nation yesterday and additional guidelines...

News

Religious gatherings may need to evolve with global escalation in COVID-19 situation: PM Lee Hsien Loong

With the World Health Organisation declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, religious services may need to be shortened and attendance at faith-based gatherings reduced, said Singapore’s Prime Minister...

Do Good

Lessons on love from giving out 6,000 cups of ice cream

It may seem frivolous when compared to care packages stocked with hand sanitisers, health supplements and surgical masks, but what if showing love to others during this COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t...

Mental Health

Living with survivor’s guilt and other lessons from my friends’ suicides

I was 17 that year. One night, my mum came rushing into my room and said my art teacher needed to speak with me urgently on the phone. The next words I heard on the phone were not what I expected at...

Mental Health

When suffering doesn’t make sense

In July, I received some bad news from relatives in Taiwan about my cousin. Her cancer had returned and, this time, it was terminal. I was shocked to hear the news, since I had just recently seen her...

Mental Health

It’s okay to wrestle with pain

Several years ago, I found myself lying in pain on the hospital bed, recuperating from a slipped disc. My former cell group leader was about to pray for me – but he said something which I did not...

Music

3 things our COVID-19 songs have taught me

We first saw this in China, but it was heartening to witness songwriters and artistes banding together in Singapore when COVID-19 started hitting close to home. Listening to these new songs and...