Rebecca Lafferty was 16 when she was plucked out of a country that felt like home. Born to missionary parents, she had spent her early years growing up in South Asia, the US, and later, Southeast Asia ...

She looked cartoonishly beautiful with her outsized wigs and high, high heels, always decked out in rhinestone-speckled outfits, but Dolly Parton’s talent was unmistakable. She wrote some of the most ...

“After my father died, I just felt such intense, immense pressure. I remember asking God: Where are you? Why have you taken my family from me? “Then I began to realise that wherever I went, Dad was ...

This question was posed to me via WhatsApp by a well-meaning and concerned Zion Bishan BP church member. Some weeks earlier, someone pointed out that the second day of Chinese New Year (CNY) fell on a ...

After a two-year sabbatical, early childhood educator Angilita Charles was seriously considering a mid-career switch into geriatrics, dealing with elderly-related healthcare. During her time outside ...

“As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in ...

There can be no sugar-coating of the numbers. The religious statistics surfaced by the 2025 General Household Survey, published today (June 30), paint a sobering picture for the church in Singapore.

Dr Pang Jing Yin, consultant at Khoo Teck Puat hospital, has been an Ear, Nose, Throat (ENT) specialist for 10 years. After completing her post-graduate studies in 2015, she chanced upon a job opening ...

Somewhere on the outskirts of idyllic Danang, Vietnam, the soft whirring of machines and gentle knocking can be heard from a small zinc-roofed workshop. Take a few steps closer and you will hear ...

God draws straight with crooked lines. This evocative excerpt by chief executive officer of St Luke’s ElderCare (SLEC) Dr Kenny Tan is what you can expect to find in his newly launched collection of ...

As far as meet-cutes go, Rev Dr Christopher Chia and his wife Mona have a rather adorable one. First meeting as six-year-olds, the Malaysian-born couple recount how they would run away from geese that ...

The day that Yeo Sow Nam started his housemanship after graduating from medical school was the very same day that his mother coughed out blood. She was later diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer. Their ...