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...

Dating

30+, single, and trying not to settle

Online dating in one’s 30s is not for the faint-hearted. Repeating answers to the same few questions for months on end, labouring to shape an organic conversation out of a vacuum, doing my best not...

Family

#SpillTheTeh: The struggles of young caregivers

“I used to think that caregivers are people of my parents’ age. So I always thought this part of life would come, but not that early. “That was my own misconception,” said...

Family

From small talk to TableTalk: A card game created by poly students for families to connect

Growing up the youngest of four children, Isaiah Chia, now 20, was used to sitting quietly while his elders talked. His was “a very typical Asian household” where there was “no culture of...

Marriage

4 tips to carry you through the healing process

It’s been four months since the miscarriage. Some days grief shows up, more intensely for me and more subtly for Aaron, and we continue to practise what we’ve learnt on how to love and help each...

Marriage

5 things I didn’t realise until I got married

For the longest time, I had looked forward to being married. I had done my share of reading and asked all the questions I could think of to prepare myself. I’m thankful that God has blessed me with...