Opinion

Sex is one topic that most parents struggle to broach, or skip over entirely. As parents, we can all see the day coming when we would need to initiate the talk with our kids — but many, like myself, often feel lost about how to begin. The Whole Life Research Brief 2016, which summarises findings from research […]

There is much that can be said about how music can influence our lives, that it can be deeply uplifting, poignant and more importantly, utterly personal. Thus, when a young Bart Millard wrote I Can Only Imagine following his father’s death from cancer in 1999, he meant it as an outlet to express the loss […]

During the Easter service of the Orthodox Church, the ‘Troparion’ is sung after the celebrant announces the resurrection of Christ at the door of the church and intones the blessing to the Holy Trinity. Incorporating Psalm 68, the Church declares: Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before […]

The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed! Amazing, wonderful, incredible… almost unbelievable! Can the dead be resurrected from the grave? Is this incredible promise of Easter too good to be true? Even the 11 disciples of Christ found this hard to believe. They had their doubts. Who wouldn’t? After all, they had witnessed the […]

In the early days of my pastoral ministry, I was drawn to books, sermons, and meetings which had a revival theme. Then it dawned upon me one day that pastors can be so enchanted with stirring this movement in their churches, without realising that it could actually be an indictment of their own ministry. If […]

I felt it ere I saw it come; A gradual dip, a sinking slump – Then towering up before my eyes, Tall tidal waves of tasks arise! I row and row, to no avail, For here they come! And lo, I flail: Pulled under, tossed up, gasping air, My heart a-thunder, wild-swept hair. Somehow I […]

  Aldersgate SG 2018 will see an active social advocate step up to share an intimate glimpse into her “secret weapons” of coping as a “working mother in a busy world”. Ms Denise Phua is no stranger to many Singaporeans, being a Member of Parliament for Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency, and Mayor, Central Singapore […]

Last seen as a reformed Roman legionnaire who encountered Jesus in Risen (2016), Joseph Fiennes is back for yet another faith-based outing as famed Olympian and Christian missionary Eric Liddell – the very same athlete who was the focus of the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire. The film On Wings of Eagles outlines the years […]

In February 2015, Gay Byrne, host of the Irish religious television programme The Meaning of Life, asked militant atheist Stephen Fry what he would say to God if he found himself standing before Him at the Pearly Gates. Fry replied with his characteristic sting: “Bone cancer in children: what’s that about?” He then proceeded with […]

In 2017, ISIS detonated bombs at two Coptic churches in Egypt during their Palm Sunday services that killed at least 45 worshippers. The first explosion, which killed 27 people and injured 78, took place in the Mar Girgis church located in the city of Tanta, about 90 km from Cairo. The second explosion took place […]

“Sexuality is the area in which we have the most difficulty in being honest. We fear facing parts of ourselves and exposing things about ourselves that feel shameful. But we need to come clean about our sexual struggles and failures.” So writes Ben K. C. Lee, author of Unmasked, thus expounding on his critical thesis […]

Ash Wednesday – what calls the soul to church When songs and stained glass cede to silence and grey? When music is solemn and slow as a dirge, Why go then to church, on Ash Wednesday? What thought bears the soul to encounter this night When Easter victorious seems eons away? When pews languish empty, […]