by Soo-Inn Tan | May 20, 2022 | 2022, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Spiritual Maturity
In a recent talk, Philip Yancey said that the main reason people read memoirs was not to discover more about the people who wrote them but to discover more of themselves. It certainly felt that way when I read the following from Henri Nouwen’s Sabbatical Journey...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 13, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues, Suffering
Christians are not spared the storms of life. This came home to me afresh when I met three medical students in Budapest recently. Coming from Nigeria they had paid a hefty cost to enter a medical school in Ukraine. They were in the 3rd and 4th years of their studies....
by Sharyn Ng | May 6, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Church, Generations Project
In my last commentary Messily Beautiful; Beautifully Messy, I left off with a string of questions on what it would look like if a church truly embraced the different generations and intentionally cultivated intergenerational relationships. Perhaps the real reason I...
by Sharyn Ng | Apr 29, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Generations Project
“We’re an intergenerational church. A family church.” I’ve heard this said many times and even said it myself, of the church I belong to. But what does it mean? Often, what is meant is that we’re a multigenerational church, a church that comprises and caters to more...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 22, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Mentoring, Soo-Inn Tan
Life is full of contradictions! I have said often that you can’t teach mentoring through a lecture. People need to actually experience the love, care, and interest of someone walking with them in their journey to becoming what they were meant to be in Christ. But here...
by Bernice Lee | Apr 15, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Death & Grief, Jesus' Death
Death: We are uncomfortable in its presence, and we try everything we can to avoid it. We even avoid talking about it. We use a variety of euphemisms instead, as if we’re afraid that Death itself might overhear. Passed away. Departed from us. Gone to a better place....
