by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 7, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Christian Living, Evangelism, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
This year our two older sons, Mark and Stephen, graduated from university. One is with us in Singapore, the other in Melbourne. As parents, we rejoice that the two of them have successfully completed a key part of their development and growth. There is just one thing....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 30, 2009 | 2009, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
May you grow up to be righteous, May you grow up to be true, May you always know the truth And see the light surrounding you. May you always be courageous, Stand upright and be strong, And may you stay forever young . . . (“Forever Young,” Bob Dylan)...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 23, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
When you encounter the same idea two days in a row, from different sources, you take notice. On Wednesday (November 18th) I was reading Leading for a Lifetime, by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2007). In their...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 20, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Media, Music
I watched the Michael Jackson memorial service on TV. I half expected him to burst out of his casket. I imagined the casket cover opening, and a sequinned gloved hand rising up, accompanied by the intro to “Thriller.” But it was not to be. MJ did not rise...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 9, 2009 | 2009, Afterlife, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
What happens after death? Nothing, according to some. Death is the universal anticlimax to life. So we should “seize the day” or “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die (1 Corinthians 15:32 NRSV).” Then there are those who, like the ancient...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 26, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Church, Leadership
I have long come to realise that team leadership is norm. Perhaps, when I was younger, I held to the individualistic, heroic, bigger than life model of leadership (and maybe believed I was on the road to being one.) But life, and the Word, have taught me that the norm...
