by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 15, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Living, Loving Others, Spiritual Friendship
… friendship is a relationship of mutuality and intimacy rooted in shared interests, loves, or goals and characterized by genuine interest in the other person as a particular other. –James Calvin Davis Last Saturday night we had the privilege of once again...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 7, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Community, Spiritual Friendship
empathic: “showing an ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” I don’t often read when I am on a flight but I am glad I read Curt Thompson’s Anatomy of the Soul (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2010) on a recent...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 17, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Book Launch, Christian Living, Graceworks, Spiritual Friendship
Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 19, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring, Spiritual Friendship
In their classic book on Spiritual Mentoring, Anderson and Reese give us various dimensions of the practice of spiritual mentoring. They say that spiritual mentoring: . . . cultivates recognition of the already present action of God in the life of the mentoree through...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 17, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring, Spiritual Friendship
When I first went to Regent in 1981 to begin my theological studies, James Houston was no longer the principal. He was the founding principal but, by then, had taken on the role of Professor of Spiritual Theology. I took only two classes with him, Christian Spirit,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 9, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Christian Living, Spiritual Friendship
I had lunch with Don Lewis on Monday. He is the Church History Professor at Regent College (Vancouver). He was making a lightning visit to Singapore for a friend’s daughter’s wedding. I first met Don in 1981 when I began my studies in Regent College. It was also the...
