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Broken cisterns, flourishing fountain

1 September 2024

“I think you’re weird and I don’t want to be friends with you anymore!”
“I challenge you to a fight, you idiot!”
“You don’t care about how I feel! This is why we can’t be friends anymore.”

A calling to teach the children of God

1 May 2024

Each Sunday, over 120 children in the ever-growing Children’s Ministry at Aldersgate Methodist Church gather for a time of worship. The combination of dance actions, sign language and music engages the senses of the children and their teachers and leads them to worship God.

Defending the faith I am grateful for

1 February 2024

Did you know King Charles III, the current monarch, bears the title “Defender of the Faith”? This title was first conferred on Henry VIII in 1521 when England was still part of the Roman Catholic Church, by Pope Leo X. Known as Fidei Defensor in Latin, it was granted to Henry VIII in recognition of the theological treatise Defence of the Seven Sacraments which he authored, possibly working with Thomas More and Cardinal Wolsey.

“Don’t come back a heathen!”

1 December 2023

“Don’t come back a heathen!” I distinctly remember the first time I heard those words from the mouth of Rev Dr Isaac Lim who, while preaching at Covenant Vision Christian Church in February 2023, provided an anecdote of how a man once committed to serving the Lord, returned home from studies in the UK a completely changed man who now forsook the Lord.

All (Sea) Creatures of Our God and King: Playing hide and seek with God

1 September 2023

Consider the following creature of the sea: it has neither heart nor brain, its body has a higher percentage of water than Coca-Cola and it reproduces by ejecting offspring into the unknown. If someone could create such a creature, we would be in awe at this inventor’s ingenuity.

Hospitality as justice: Addressing homelessness in Singapore

1 August 2023

In the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s (LKYSPP) inaugural street count of homeless people in Singapore in 2019, it revealed between 921 and 1,050 street homeless across the island.

In search of authentic Christian community

1 July 2023

This question undergirds many ongoing conversations on young adults in the Methodist Church. It lies beneath disappointments, disillusionments, and frustrations nursed by young adults who feel let down when their churches remain distant from scriptural precedents and ideals.

To those not celebrating Father’s Day

1 June 2023

I have nothing against Father’s Day. My family just never had the practice of celebrating it—along with other occasions like Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day. Maybe it was because my parents were not the sentimental sort. The most we did was to attend the big, extended-family dinners my uncles or aunties would throw for my grandfathers on both sides.

What do you mean, you want to leave your church?

1 March 2023

“I’m thinking of leaving my church,” said one of my close friends. Later, a second and a third friend also brought this up during a meal. Soon, I could no longer count with both hands the friends who had decided to leave their church, or the Church. What was happening?

Five ways to put Christ in Christmas

1 December 2022

Christmas evolved from the Middle English Christemass, which means Christ’s mass. As ‘mass’ refers to a church service, it should come quite naturally to most that the primary reason for Christmas would be Christ’s birth.