by Soo-Inn Tan | May 17, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Church, Life Issues, Preaching & Teaching, Work & Vocation
I had the privilege of teaching an evening course in a major seminary recently, on the ministry of the laity. The class started with 26 students. Midway through the class we were down to about half that number. We had about 11 students on the last evening. I was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 26, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Church, Community, Death & Grief, Life Issues
Last Good Friday, at 12.46 pm, I received an SMS from a friend informing me that his wife had gone home to the Lord. She had been fighting cancer and it had been rough near the end. I suspect my friend will have mixed feelings; relief that his beloved wife is...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 18, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Church, Community, Death & Grief, Life Issues
We were driving back from Good Friday service this morning when the message came. A good friend’s wife had passed away. She had fought her cancer with courage and faith, surrounded by a family and a church community that fought alongside her. And now we will no longer...
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by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 27, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Church, Community
I always find it tough to preach on Mother’s Days, not because I have any qualms in appreciating mothers and the impossible work they have been given. (I am profoundly grateful for my own mother.) I find it hard to preach on Mother’s Days because of folks in the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 6, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Mentoring, Preaching & Teaching
In his memoir, Now and Then, Frederick Buechner writes about his time at Union seminary. In terms of Union’s history, I couldn’t have gone there at a more auspicious time. It was its golden age. Reinhold Niebuhr was there, and Paul Tillich was there, these two great...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 15, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Church, Corporate Worship
I was in Petaling Jaya rummaging through the stuff in my old room, looking for a missing document when I came across a copy of my ordination certificate. I was reminded that I was ordained by the Georgetown Baptist Church, Penang on the 26th of June, 1988. (For the...
