by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 12, 2025 | 2025, Social Media, Violence
This morning I woke up to learn that Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative Christian activist and commentator, had been fatally shot. (1) This should provoke horror and grief from all, whatever your political and theological leanings. A few days ago I read the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 5, 2025 | 2025, Aging, Community, Spiritual Friendship
They laughed and yelled as they teased one another. They looked like a bunch of teenagers. Their average age: 50. Many were very senior in their chosen fields. For four days, they were just old friends, many of whom had not met up in a long time. Last weekend I had...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 28, 2025 | 2025, Christian Identity, Evangelism, Following Jesus
I was having lunch with some friends when one of them turned to me and asked: “Why is it that there are so many non-Christians who behave more Christianly than many who identify as Christians?” This is a question that raises many more questions, and to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 22, 2025 | 2025, Christian Unity, Community, Discipleship
I made a new friend recently. Alex Tso leads the Campus Evangelical Fellowship in Taiwan. We were both speaking at an IFES East Asia event and had connected. We discovered that we were both alumni of Regent College (Vancouver). Regent College alumni will know the joy...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 14, 2025 | 2025, Persecution, Suffering
One of my readings this morning: Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his...
by Sharyn Ng | Aug 8, 2025 | 2025, Faith, God's Grace
Then the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count...
