by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 20, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Hope, Life Issues, Suffering
The stench must have been horrible. The fauna of the Nile had a field day. Perhaps ancient Egypt was a more violent place and time than today. Still, the sight of a continuous stream of dead male babies floating down the Nile would have given pause to any witness, in...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 12, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Violence, World Issues
“..pie in the sky by and by when you die..” Atheistic communism used to throw this taunt at Christianity. Believing that ‘religion was the opiate of the masses’, communism saw Christianity as a threat to its programme of building a just...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 6, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Ethics, World Issues
TIME Magazine–reliable newsweekly or trojan horse for ungodly values? Well, both actually. In a rapidly shrinking world, TIME, and other weeklies like NEWSWEEK and ECONOMIST provide well written articles and editorials that help one understand the world. But...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 29, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Hope, Life Issues, Violence, World Issues
Tensions rise over refugee ship Four dead in Spanish plane crash Policeman “killed family then himself” Mid-East ‘truce’ fails to bite These were the main headlines from BBC Online today (29th August, 2001). If they sound too grim, here is the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 23, 2001 | 2001, Articles, God, God's Will, God’s Sovereignty
What if…. What if Joseph’s brothers had been nice, forgiving guys? We’ll never know because when push came to shove, they decided to kill their braggart brother (Genesis 37). One brother had a little more sense so Joseph’s life was spared. He...