In May 2016, The New York Times carried an interesting and thought-provoking article entitled Why You Will Marry The Wrong Person. Alain de Botton, the writer, asserted that whether we choose our marriage partner with our head or with our heart, we will invariably make a bad choice. He put forward reasonable supporting arguments, not the […]
If you were to meet Paul Ang today, you would be surprised that his approachable demeanour belies a past spent running from the law, having committed a series of crimes from armed robberies to drug smuggling. Years of living on the wrong side of the law came to an abrupt halt when his attempt at […]
John Wesley made it his life’s mission to proclaim the gospel wherever he was. He was a man of passion, prayer and perseverance. Yet, in this writer’s opinion, his preaching and practice of holiness and social justice distinguish him from other evangelical leaders. Historians frequently use the word theopraxis to describe this aspect of Wesley’s […]
The Dictionary of Christian Biography in Asia (DCB Asia) —a free online database of stories related to the growth of Christianity in Asia— was launched on 17 April 2022. A collaboration between Seminari Theoloji Malaysia (STM) and Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF), the database includes biographies of Asian, non-Asian, and indigenous Christian church leaders and laity […]
Some 15 years ago, Aldersgate Methodist Church (AMC) sent a request to its members for volunteers to reach out to the residents at MWS Bethany Nursing Home (Choa Chu Kang). Among those who stepped forward were Loh Han Chew and Benson Woon, who were from the same cell group at AMC, and they started a […]
Jessica Lee is a Sunday School teacher at Mighty Power Kids (MPK), Paya Lebar Chinese Methodist Mission (PLCMM). She first joined PLCMM when she was six years old, after church volunteers came knocking on her door, inviting her mother to send her for tuition at PLCMM, and thereafter to attend Sunday School. Jessica’s mother had […]
It was 2014 and Margaret Lim was serving in the Children’s Ministry—the weekly Sunday School—at Living Hope Methodist Church (LHMC). By then, her years of ministry were many but not for the first time, she wondered if more work for the Lord could and should be done. There were already two major annual events on […]
The bedrock of Christian faith is our belief in the triune God—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as revealed in Scripture and in the Incarnation. This is the God we worship, the One God in Three Persons, whose actions lead to our redemption and hope for eternal life. Our Trinitarian faith is enshrined […]
I’ve always had mixed feelings about parenthood. I’ve heard from friends about the sleepless nights of looking after their newborns, the “terrible twos and threes”, navigating the education landscape in Singapore, and the challenges of communicating with sullen or rebellious teens. These are real struggles of parenthood, and parents now have to raise their children […]
We commemorate Aldersgate both as one person’s evangelical conversion as well as the start of a reforming movement for the Church. But beyond merely remembering what happened, what lessons can we draw so that we may recognise an Aldersgate experience today? The first lesson is that all of us Methodists need to want to be […]
