by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 26, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Church, Community, Death & Grief, Life Issues
Last Good Friday, at 12.46 pm, I received an SMS from a friend informing me that his wife had gone home to the Lord. She had been fighting cancer and it had been rough near the end. I suspect my friend will have mixed feelings; relief that his beloved wife is...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 18, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Church, Community, Death & Grief, Life Issues
We were driving back from Good Friday service this morning when the message came. A good friend’s wife had passed away. She had fought her cancer with courage and faith, surrounded by a family and a church community that fought alongside her. And now we will no longer...
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by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 11, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Christian Living, Spiritual Friendship
This morning, I had to revisit some difficult moments in my history. My darling Bernice and I had been invited by a good friend, Dr Eliza Lian-Ding, to share with a group of seminary students on what we learnt in building a blended family. There was no way we could...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 4, 2014 | 2014, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Mental Illness
Dementia is an irreversible and progressive intellectual disability affecting key functions of daily life and caused by a groups of disease processes… Alzheimer’s disease accounts for two -thirds of cases, and is the best known. (Rosemary Hurtley, Insight...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 14, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, Media, Movies & Television
A good movie should entertain of course, but it should also give the viewer fresh insight into life, and inspire one to want to make a difference. 12 Years a Slave (2013) is such a movie. Although it’s “entertainment” it is hardly a feel-good experience. (And for the...
