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Reality check

Reality check

In the chaos of hectic days, I am repeatedly swept along by a roaring current. Waves of culture and societal normalities wash over me..

  • What's wrong with our original name?

    The trending style on social media is to use an alternative name or nickname in place of our given name. In some countries, such as Korea and Japan, celebrities take on a different stage name instead of using their birth name.

  • Imperfection and dishonesty

    It\'s a terrible burden, not being perfect. I\'ve noticed we can disqualify ourselves because we feel imperfect, self-imposing limits on what we can do.

  • The lies we tell ourselves

    There are many names society calls us which we then twist and turn within ourselves and deem to be truths. These are not the lies I wish to address today.

  • Primary and secondary causes

    The universe with its complexity, order and fixed laws operates in such a way that we can understand and discover these laws. Their predictable, consistent and reliable nature helps us. In order to study these laws, the scientific method was developed.

  • Why I'm a sucker for pain

    Have you ever heard a good answer to why there is suffering in the world? Any answer given will seem ridiculous and cannot satisfy everyone; least of all those suffering right now.

  • Why Church history is a great tool for evangelism

    I\'m not a history buff, but as I have been studying Early Church history I realise how important this knowledge is—and helpful as a tool for evangelism.

  • How the world taught me to be inferior

    I remember one day as a very young girl—probably six or seven years old—when I was standing at the back of a colourful classroom, watching as my mother saw my crayoned self-portrait in all its glory for the first time.

  • Should every child get a ribbon?

    The athletics tournament is over. The young children are tired. They\'ve had a good day of running, jumping and throwing. Everyone got a ribbon. No one missed out. No one felt that they had lost.

  • The right road isn't always the most comfortable: part two

    He was just as surprised as I, but I had no animosity toward him at all. I was just glad to see him and catch up, and I knew he was too.

  • Childlike faith comes from a crisis of faith

    Late one night, I was lying in my bedballing my eyes out. \"God? I don\'t even know who you are!\" came out from my lips. My heart broke. I was so confused.

  • The 'Trump' card?

    A strange and unsettling phenomenon has taken place in our world in the past year.