by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 30, 2004 | 2004, Articles, God, Media, Movies & Television, Redemption
‘The Last Samurai’ is an excellent action flick. Unfortunately most of the characters in the movie were taken from the Hollywood dictionary of stereotypes. *The money grabbing, commerce obsessed westerner. *The evil easterner who has been seduced by the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 22, 2002 | 2002, Articles, God, Redemption
Divine Zen: “The only way we can receive God’s forgiveness is to realize that we do not deserve to be forgiven.” Having difficulty figuring it out? That’s ok. Its divine zen. And more significant than one hand clapping. Its at the heart of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 7, 2001 | 2001, Articles, God, Redemption
What happens when an appliance in your house breaks down? The heating filament in my oven toaster broke about a year ago. It would have been much more expensive to repair it than to buy a new one. So we threw the broken one away and bought another. This seems to be a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 7, 2001 | 2001, Articles, God, God's Grace, Redemption
Parables are no fun when you know how they turn out. For example everyone knows about the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:29-37). Heck, we all want to be the Good Samaritan. We know we should extend aid to all who need it even to those who despise us. The...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 10, 2000 | 2000, Articles, God, Redemption
The Nov. 6th issue of Newsweek carried an interview with Tetsuo Nakajima, a Japanese gangster(yakuza). He had been involved in crimes ranging from extortion to drug dealing and had served two prison terms. At the height of his yakuza career he fell in love with a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 2, 2000 | 2000, Articles, God, Media, Movies & Television, Redemption
The Wolverine character in the ‘X-Men’ movie would seem to be a poor choice to remind us of the Lamb of God. We first encounter him as a vicious wrestler and for the whole of the movie, he has a chip on his shoulder the size of an oak tree. Yet his saving...
