by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 23, 2009 | 2009, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
Last night I was speaking at a dinner for first year Christian dental students. It is hard to imagine that I was a freshman in dental school in 1974. Time has dulled both joy and terror but I still recall starting dental school as a major transition in my life. Not...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 11, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Church, Leadership, Preaching & Teaching
Think of a few leaders you admire. How many of them were effective leaders as a result of some formal leadership training they received? Ruth A. Tucker has this to say about leadership training: Enrolling in a seminar to learn how to be a leader is as unfeasible as...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 7, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Governance, Malaysia, Racism, World Issues
(AP) Dozens of Malaysian Muslims paraded Friday with the head of a cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism, in a dramatic protest against the proposed construction of a Hindu temple in their neighborhood. The unusual protest by some 50 people in Shah Alam, the capital of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 1, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Church, Preaching & Teaching
I have the privilege of teaching a course on Christian Spirituality in a major seminary in town. For three hours every Tuesday, nineteen students and myself grapple with issues that pertain to our relationship with God. The last forty minutes or so of every class, I...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 21, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Christian Living, Rest & Busyness
We were talking about a Christian leader who had to leave a position of leadership because of some personal problems. My friend said two things. First he said, “We should have seen it coming. Why didn’t we see it coming?” Then he said, “I could...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 14, 2009 | 2009, Articles, God, God's Word
In preparation for a lecture, I revisited the temptation narrative in Genesis 3 and learned something new. The first thing that Satan did when he approached Eve was to change God from an object to be worshipped to a subject to be discussed. Here is Satan’s...
