by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 4, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Church, Leadership
The following paragraph from the 23 February 2022 issue of the Singapore Straits Times caught my eye: Companies with a high proportion of board directors and senior executives aged over 60 delivered lower returns on assets compared with others, an inaugural...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 25, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Death & Grief, Jesus, Jesus' Death, Jesus' Resurrection, Life Issues
The last few days, two people close to us passed away. It seems to be a season of deaths. The most significant loss I suffered was the death of mum in October last year. The Christian narrative is that those who die in Christ go home to the Lord (Philippians 1:23)...
by Bernice Lee | Feb 18, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Bernice Lee, Dependence on God, Growth, Obedience & Faithfulness, Widowhood
In another universe and timeline, my life was filled with physical adventure. Armed with compass and map, we sallied forth through the jungle on an offshore island to reach designated checkpoints. I also did something called ‘night orienteering’. This involved getting...
by Bernice Lee | Feb 11, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Loving Others
I stopped at a traffic junction and saw this very ordinary scene to my right. What isn’t obvious in this hurried (and harried) shot I took is that the canopy overhead only allowed the light through patchily. But you can see the results of the scattered rays of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 4, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Community, Evangelism
I first heard about the three Cs of being human from R. Paul Stevens. From the creation accounts, he pointed out that humanity was defined by three “calls”. First was communion, the call to relate to God. (Gen 2:7; 3:8) Second was community,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 28, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Jesus' Death, Media, Movies & Television
[Spoilers ahead: What, you haven’t watched Spider-man: No Way Home yet?] Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) is not a perfect movie. As Paris Marx reminds us, a Peter Parker with the patronage of Tony Stark and now Stark Enterprises is not the poor boy from a...
