by Soo-Inn Tan | May 31, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Life Issues, Sex
Want a sure fire way of shocking good church folk? Just say ‘sex’. For some reason, sex, in the minds of most Christians, is filed under ‘evil’. Which is an insult to God and a travesty of the facts. Fact: God created humankind as male and...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 24, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Rest & Busyness, Work & Vocation
“If you asked twenty good Christians today how they are doing, nineteen of them would reply, busy. But if you asked almost any of the desert fathers, they would have told you that busyness is a sin. You see what has happened? A vice has become a virtue.”...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 17, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
“You don’t have to wait till the bus pulls out. I am sure that you have more important things to do”, dad said when I dropped him off at the bus station this morning. He had been visiting and was on his way home. (Dad and mum live in Penang, about...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 9, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Media, Movies & Television
Entertainment A- Theology D- I went to see Spider-man the movie last Saturday. Now I must tell you that I am a Spider-man fan from way back, from a galaxy far, far away where comics used to cost 40sens (US 12 cents). I liked Spider-man because he wasn’t a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 3, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Battling Sin, Christian Living
The March 11th 2002 issue of Christianity Today(CT) contains a very poignant testimony by a homosexual Christian man. Remaining anonymous, he writes about his daily battle against his homosexual desires, “a battle that comes at considerable psychological cost to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 26, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Justice, World Issues
He had worked for the company for the better part of a decade. Although he was a just a junior partner, his technical expertise and networking abilities had been instrumental in making his company the leader in its field. The company was going for an IPO. He was about...
