Scientific research has found that music can powerfully impact those with dementia by reducing anxiety and depression, promoting cognition, speech and memory and reducing the need for antipsychotic drugs. Personally meaningful music, which stirs emotions or memories within the listener, is particularly powerful.
Becoming a dementia-friendly church
On 26 February 2025, two-time Academy award winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy were found dead in their home. The medical investigator concluded that Betsy had passed away first, followed by Gene a few days later. His official cause of death was severe heart disease, with advanced Alzheimer’s disease (a form of dementia) as a contributing factor.
Hanging out, situationships and more
I am trying to adhere to the principle that Christians should not be “unequally yoked”. What should I do if I realise I’ve started developing feelings for someone who isn’t a Christian? How do I draw the line between simply “hanging out” as friends and something more? Should I limit casual one-on-one dates to Christians only?
The grieving Christian
Grief is a universal human response to loss. While most commonly associated with losing someone dear to us through death, grief can also be present in a divorce, the loss of a friendship, injury or serious illness, retrenchment, or when significant life events occur such as adult children leaving home, moving away from what is safe and familiar, or a change in social status upon retirement.
Creation Care Conference unites 500 Christians across Asia to explore faith, climate action and stewardship
On 12 and 13 September 2025, over 500 participants from 130 churches across 10 countries came together to attend the second Creation Care Conference jointly hosted by Faith Methodist Church and Queenstown Chinese Methodist Church. It was organised by Our Father’s World (OFW), an organisation that was founded in 2020 “to inspire and equip the Church to love and care for God’s creation”.