True and False in Singapore
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Musings From the Conways in Canada
March 2025 By Pearlyn The First Check-in I have often wondered about the stories of people we’ve seen in airports. The holidaymakers with their emanating excitement, business travellers and their fast-tracked transitions, and that group of travellers who are obviously heading to their country of residence, but who equally
True and False in Singapore
Favourites and Frustrations From My Seven Years Mixed Feelings It is complicated to reflect in public on the shortcomings of a culture one has lived in and been blessed by. Consider the potential arrogance. Who am I to make such criticisms? And of a nation as impressive as Singapore? Consider
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Dear Christ Church
Greetings to our brothers and sisters at Christ Church! It has been a (chilly) whirlwind, but the Conway family is settled and continues to settle in Toronto. I must thank you all for the warm welcome. We are very thankful to God for how He has provided for us in
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John Jarmin's First Day of 2025
It's not about how hard you can hit. It's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. - ROCKY It was the first of January 2025 and, naturally, John Jarmin was expecting a near perfect day. The evening before was predictably late and
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The Content Conceit
For some time I have been uneasy about my relationship with "content." Even more than my relationship with it, I have been curious about my perception of it. What is content today? What actually is the thing people ask me to subscribe for more of? "If you
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We're Moving to Canada
When we began our tenure in Singapore in January of 2017 I had not spent more than three years in one place since prior to 2008. We referred to it as "the curse" and wondered if Singapore would break it. Eight years later we are nine years into
The Surpassing Worth
In a café in 2014 I met with a pastor, and it changed my life. I’d become a Christian but my life was in disarray due to a spectacular combination of sin and stupidity. I had made the painful journey through the initial stages of a biblical self-understanding. I
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Big Person Little Body
Driving home from school today my son announced to me unsolicited: “I love you, dada.” I searched for a follow-up question to keep him talking. But before I found one he doubled down: “Yeh, I care about you a lot.” He had reasons. I was thoroughly bested and could only
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A Book at the Bottom of the Bed
I placed a book at the bottom of my daughter’s bed tonight. I hadn’t planned to. We’d been reading and soon she be sleeping. The book needed a place to rest too and the bottom of the bed seemed right. It really was. I immediately reviewed the