by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 7, 2023 | 2023, Death & Grief, Following Jesus, Obedience & Faithfulness, Spiritual Friendship
I take a break from my series on friendship interactions to honour a friend. This morning (5 July 2023) I woke up to a message that my friend, Pastor Ng Kok Aun, had passed away. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise. He had been fighting cancer for more than six...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 30, 2023 | 2023, Discernment, Spiritual Friendship, Work & Vocation
In my third year of seminary I had a very strong urge to go to Oxford to pursue a DPhil. I ran the idea by a friend and mentor. He said he thought that my doing a PhD would be a stretch. When I suggested that maybe I should do a DMin, a doctorate in ministry which was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 23, 2023 | 2023, Church, Corporate Worship
I can’t help it. I still feel that most church corporate worship services are more like being in a theatre or lecture. They usually occur in halls where the people are seated in rows all facing forward. At the front, raised or otherwise, is a stage where some...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 16, 2023 | 2023, Following Jesus, Spiritual Friendship
In his study on friendship, Robin Dunbar discovered that there was a direct correlation between the strength of a friendship and the amount of time the friends spend with each other. He writes: How emotionally close we feel to someone is directly related to how much...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 9, 2023 | 2023, Articles, Community, Spiritual Friendship
Conversation: talk between two or more people in which thoughts, feelings, and ideas are expressed, questions are asked and answered, or news and information is exchanged (Cambridge Dictionary) I first met him about two decades ago. I can’t say we were close...
