by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 18, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Life Issues, Media, Movies & Television, Suffering
The boys and I watched Star Wars Episodes 4 and 5 over the Lunar New Year holidays. The special effects definitely looked dated this time round. (What were the Stormtroopers wearing, white coloured paint cans??) However, I noticed that my two boys, though raised in an...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 14, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Church, Community
Most of us have probably heard of Gore-Tex fabrics, fabrics which have a transparent plastic coating that makes them waterproof and wind proof but keeps them breathable. What you may not know is that the company that produces them, W. L. Gore & Associates, was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 4, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Christian Living, Loving Others
Jakob the Liar was on cable. And CNN was broadcasting live, the 60th Anniversary Commemoration of the liberation of Auswitch, a place where: More than one million Jews were killed but Gypsies, Poles, Russians also died in the camp. Hundreds were subjected to medical...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 28, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Family, Singleness
Not married yet-ah?? These are the dreaded words confronting many a single. Often well meaning, they reinforce the belief that one is somewhat deficient until one is married. Singles know full well the occasions when the pressure will be on: weddings, wedding dinners,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 26, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, Prayer
I knew a girl once. She very much wanted a boy friend — bad. She was a good Christian girl so she knew the boy had to be a Christian too. She was a good Christian girl so she knew that she should ask God for what she wanted. She did her part. She made friends....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 14, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
I was at a wedding dinner last weekend when the guest next to me discovered I was some kind of clergy. He asked me the question du jour: What is the spiritual significance of the tsunami?? I mumbled something about the fact that we live in a fallen world where...
