Real Life, Real People

#UnheardNarratives: Children of divorce

A marriage involves two people, but a divorce can involve a lot more if you think about the families affected. In episode three of our new series, Unheard Narratives, we hear from children of...

Real Life, Real People

#UnheardNarratives: Couples who broke up in church

Breakups are not easy to handle, much less in church where everyone knows everyone. So how should one react to a breakup? And why are breakups such a taboo topic anyway? For episode one of our new...

Friendship

What rejection has taught me

I have never been a popular girl. There have been many times when I would wonder: Why am I not invited to so and so’s wedding? Why am I never in someone’s “close friends” clique? Could it be...

Dating

I waited four years to confess, right before she left for university abroad

The date is 16 July 2019, 8.45 pm. I was supposed to leave 15 minutes ago. I needed to head back to camp if I was going to make it for last parade at 2130 hours. But here I was, telling Julia that I...

Do Good

Homeless at age 14, this is how a foster family changed her life

In his 2021 National Day Rally speech, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong highlighted Roslina Toh’s effort in mobilising 200 volunteers to organise food and shelter for stranded Malaysian workers...

Singlehood

One and whole: How I learned to love being single

One evening, as an introductory question to our Bible study session, our happily married leader asked the singles in our group to share why we were still single. The answers thrown out were along the...

Friendship

The answer is love: How I stopped jumping to judgment and anger

I was born and raised in a Christian home with parents who brought me to church and Sunday School every week. I had heard stories from the Bible and about Jesus from a young age. I grew up attending...

Marriage

Jacob and Jaclyn: Extending hospitality amidst pain

It was two weeks before the wedding and everything was running like clockwork — just as how Jacob and Jaclyn Lau had expected. Renovations for their new home were underway. Jaclyn’s elder sister,...

Marriage

#SpillTheTeh: 3 couples reveal what romance with a big age gap is like

“12 years leh! Can you imagine? When he was taking his PSLE, I was just born.” That was the eye-raising parallel Zhi Ying drew when I asked if she had any considerations at the time about dating...