Salt&Light

Three criminals are being led out of the city of Jerusalem to be executed. An angry crowd lines the streets, loudly mocking and cursing the condemned men.

The worst insults are saved for the man in the middle. His face is drenched in blood because of the crown of thorns on his head. 

I am among the crowd, shouting insults along with them.

We are in the m...

How many of us have grown up in homes where parents never apologise, where we are constantly compared to a smarter or more accomplished sibling, where we have felt unloved and unseen? And how do these childhood experiences influence our adult behaviour when we become parents ourselves?

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In this essay, we approach age, calling and seasons from a Theology of Work perspective.

When we hear the word ageism, we often think about discrimination against older people. We picture the experienced worker being overlooked for a promotion, the older employee being considered “past their prime”, or someone being encouraged to retire simply...

Tucked in the small coastal town of Tanjong Uban, Bintan, lies an orphanage, an F&B social enterprise, a homeschool for dropouts, and a preschool.

Stretching past the town, a farm, daycare and learning centres are scattered across the island of Bintan, Indonesia.

What do these establishments have in common? They are all part of 5miles.

Founded by husb...

The family noticed it in the small things at first.

He would walk out of the house and forget to take his house keys with him. Where once he could go anywhere without a GPS, he started getting lost even in places familiar to him.

“In our hearts, we suspected something was wrong, but nobody wanted to say anything. We didn’t want to label him wrongly because we di...