by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 23, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
When you encounter the same idea two days in a row, from different sources, you take notice. On Wednesday (November 18th) I was reading Leading for a Lifetime, by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2007). In their...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 20, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Media, Music
I watched the Michael Jackson memorial service on TV. I half expected him to burst out of his casket. I imagined the casket cover opening, and a sequinned gloved hand rising up, accompanied by the intro to “Thriller.” But it was not to be. MJ did not rise...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 9, 2009 | 2009, Afterlife, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
What happens after death? Nothing, according to some. Death is the universal anticlimax to life. So we should “seize the day” or “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die (1 Corinthians 15:32 NRSV).” Then there are those who, like the ancient...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 26, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Church, Leadership
I have long come to realise that team leadership is norm. Perhaps, when I was younger, I held to the individualistic, heroic, bigger than life model of leadership (and maybe believed I was on the road to being one.) But life, and the Word, have taught me that the norm...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 23, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Books, Graceworks, Media
Writing has never come easy for me. I prefer to preach or teach any time. When I stand before a group of people and preach or teach, I see some results of my work straight away. Your listeners may love you or they may hate you but you have a pretty good idea from...
