by Soo-Inn Tan | May 3, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Christian Living, Discernment, Rest & Busyness
“My name is Soo Inn. I am an info junkie.” When my internet service provider (ISP) is down I manifest cold turkey symptoms. I call the ISP office demanding to know when they will be back online. I back up my main ISP with two more ISPs. I know precisely...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 21, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Christian Living, Solitude & Quiet Time
In Making All Things New, my all time favourite book on spirituality, the late Henri Nouwen writes: Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and God alone. If we really believe that God not...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 16, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Battling Sin, Christian Living
The largest standing statues of Buddha are being destroyed. Carved out by Greek artists in the fifth century, the statues are located in the Bamiyan region of Afghanistan. Their destruction is the result of an order by the Taliban regime that “all sculptures in...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 1, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Community, Loving Others
That Jesse Jackson had fathered a child with a mistress probably didn’t come as too much of a shock to an American public already overdosed on news of the moral failures of her public figures. It surely didn’t come as a shock to God who, being all knowing,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 11, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Battling Sin, Christian Living
Christmas is feel good time. You know Christmas is near when the radio begins to play Christmas favourites. “Have yourself a merry little Christmas…” TV stations begin to screen collages of warm Christmas scenes from the movies. Christmas is feel...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 4, 2001 | 2001, Articles, Christian Living, Remembrance
It is only the fifth day of the new year and I am already feeling tired and frazzled. And I know why. Yes the end of 2000 saw me travelling a bit. Yes, dad’s health is a concern. Yes there was the usual running around preparing the boys for a new school year....
