by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 28, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, COVID-19, Discernment, Fear, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues, Malaysia, World Issues
Recently, the Anglican Bishop, the Rt Revd Rennis Ponniah, gave a sermon to the Singapore church as the country faced the COVID-19 virus crisis. I thought his main points applied equally well to the Malaysian church as our country faced a challenging political crisis....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 14, 2020 | 2020, Articles, COVID-19, Faith, Fear, Hope, Life Issues
Once, in 1968 when I was 13, I developed a high fever. Dad and mum gave me the usual antipyretics but the fever continued to spike. They consulted doctor friends who recommended that I be hospitalised straight away because the fever was dangerously high. So I was...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 21, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Dependence on God, Fear, God, Life Issues
Yesterday I did my first MRI examination and lived to tell the tale. I had been having pain in my lower right back on and off for a number of years now. It had always been rare and the pain bearable. Recently the pain had become more frequent and more severe. My GP...
by Bernice Lee | May 6, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Fear, Governance, Life Issues, World Issues
I write this commentary with some measure of fear and trepidation. Fear that I will merely be adding to the cacophony as Singapore goes on the hustings. But a delicious kind of trepidation, if there can be such a thing, as I think through how I want to exercise my...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 12, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Fear, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues
His wife’s cancer had come back. They last fought the big ‘C’ 17 years ago. It had gone away. For almost two decades. But it had come back. The prognosis was good. But still? What if? They had three young children. His work entailed a lot of...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 18, 2002 | 2002, Articles, Fear, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues
I’m not sure who first coined the phrase “change is the only constant” or when that phrase was first coined. I only know that I rarely hear it anymore. Not because it is no longer true, but because change has become so commonplace in the 21st century...