by David Wong | Oct 31, 2025 | 2025, Happiness, Preaching & Teaching
I was teaching recently at a seminar in Indonesia. As usual, I tried to break the ice by beginning with a humorous story. No one laughed. Except maybe my interpreter. Later, I asked why. “You are a pastor,” I was told, “Pastors are supposed to be...
by Bernice Lee | Oct 17, 2025 | 2025, Books, Church, Suffering
In preparation for our upcoming Sexual Assault Conference, I thought I would do well to revisit all that we had packed into the 344 pages of the book we published in 2023 on this very topic of Sexual Assault in the Church. I was humbled by the honesty of the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 3, 2025 | 2025, Rest & Busyness, Work & Vocation
I have decided that I shall also take a sabbatical from this weekly e-column. I have been writing this column and its predecessors for more than 20 years now, not every week, but most weeks. It makes sense that a serious sabbatical should include my ceasing from this...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 19, 2025 | 2025, Church, Loving Others, Relationships
I remember the day my first wife died. Many came to offer their sympathies. I was somewhat in shock, but I remember that I was grateful. Then Pastor Lim Soon Hock came. He too had lost his first wife. He didn’t say much, just a few words of wisdom and care. But...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 5, 2025 | 2025, Aging, Community, Spiritual Friendship
They laughed and yelled as they teased one another. They looked like a bunch of teenagers. Their average age: 50. Many were very senior in their chosen fields. For four days, they were just old friends, many of whom had not met up in a long time. Last weekend I had...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 14, 2025 | 2025, Persecution, Suffering
One of my readings this morning: Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his...
