by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 9, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Governance, World Issues
Some of my Christian friends in Malaysia are caught in a dilemma. The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (BERSIH), is calling for a peaceful rally to be held this Saturday, to press for reforms in the electoral system. The police have refused to give a permit for...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 5, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Rest & Busyness, Work & Vocation
The meeting had to be rescheduled because I had to make an urgent trip back to Kuala Lumpur. But the four members of my mentoring cohort and I managed to agree on a new date to meet. As usual the meeting would begin with dinner at 7.30 pm. A day before the meeting...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 26, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Family, Honoring Parents
It’s not every day that I get a chance to honour my mother publicly. I did it last Sunday. I was preaching in her church, the Penang Baptist Church, in their Sunday worship service. Some time had been set aside to commemorate mum’s 80th birthday. The topic...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 18, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
Once in awhile you read something that sounds really right. It makes you want to put it in a piece but you are not quite sure how. I caught the following passage from Will Hutton’s The World We’re In some time ago: [A good business is much more than a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 17, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
I love visiting North America in the fall. I love the fall colours. My cousin was in between chemotherapy rounds and insisted on driving us out into the country to do some apple picking. In half an hour we were in an orchard outside of Toronto. It was a cloudy day....
