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Social media and your body image

1 June 2025

Our mental health appears to be under siege now maybe more than at any time before. In particular, the use of social media and its links to depression, anxiety, stress, cyber-bullying and body image concerns is troubling. What is the impact of social media on how we see ourselves?

His praise your loosened tongues employ

1 June 2025

Almost overnight, the lives of Ms Crystal Goh, 38, and Ms Emily Lim-Leh, 53, changed because of spasmodic dysphonia (SD), a rare neurological condition. This condition, in which the muscles of the voice box spasm involuntarily, causes a person’s voice to break or have a strained sound. People with SD have little control over their voices and therefore lose a critical means of communication.

Intentional love: Strengthening the heartbeat of Christian community

1 May 2025

In a world that celebrates the loudest voices and those with stellar achievements, it is easy, even within families, to overlook the quieter roles or unseen efforts that hold everything together. The apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 12 on the other hand, reminds us that every member of the body is indispensable, no matter how visible or hidden our contributions may be.

Sharing life, health and peace through Jesus

1 May 2025

Imagine having to submit an essay to your school principal every month, the said principal having a reputation for sternness and being a stickler for the proper use of the English language. This is what family and marital therapist Benny Bong agreed to when Mr Earnest Lau, who was his principal at Anglo-Chinese School, asked him to write a regular column for Methodist Message (MM).

Rehabilitation doctor wakes up from a coma after nearly 5 years

1 May 2025

Dr Preima Doraisamy shares her story of God’s miraculous healing from a coma with Methodist Message. As the first female rehabilitation doctor in Singapore, she later became in need of the Coma Arousal Programme that she had developed years earlier.

In conversation with Dr Eunice Tan on neurodiversity education and the Church

1 April 2025

Special needs education is a growing field in Singapore. Dr Eunice Tan, who heads the Special Education Programme at Singapore University of Social Sciences, sits down with psychologist Sue-Lynn Teo for a chat on her experiences in the field of neurodiversity education.

The neurodivergent believer and the body of Christ

1 April 2025

Many of us are able to sense that someone is “different”, but do we understand that difference, or know how to respond to the person? Dr Mark Toh explains what neurodiversity is and presents a profile of autism to help us in the quest to be an inclusive church.

The Christian’s battle against addiction

1 March 2025

God has given humanity the gift and mystery of life. From birth, life thrusts on us the need to survive, to overcome and mature, and to live meaningfully. Our separation from God because of the disobedience of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3) and what we have subsequently inherited complicates this challenge.

A testimony: The miracle I saw

1 March 2025

In January 2022, I woke up one morning to find the world a blur. When I could not read the small print on my smartphone, I thought my presbyopia must have deteriorated. Then I could not make out any of the labels and price tags at the supermarket. Frustration truly set in when I could not read any of my documents at work clearly until I enlarged their fonts.