by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 11, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
He said he had lost his daughter seven months ago. She was two and had died in an accident. The rest of us in our small group were parents. It was easy to empathise. We wept with him. We were all at a Christian publishing conference. Participants had come from various...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 8, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Hope, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose
Coming from a Chinese diaspora family in Malaysia, I was given a master plan early in life: Work hard in school so that you can get good grades in your examinations. Good grades will enable you to get into the best universities and qualify you to take the best...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 24, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues
On August 11th 2011, one of our pet dogs, Dusty, disappeared. Both Bernice and I were not in Singapore. I was teaching in a seminary in Malaysia and beloved Bernice didn’t tell me, so that I wouldn’t be distracted from my work. She told me two days later....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 28, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Life Issues, Mental Illness
Last weekend, Bernice and I had the privilege to minister at a camp for college and university students from the Petaling Jaya Evangelical Free Church. This was a group of bright people, most of whom took their faith seriously. We had no doubts that from them would...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 21, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Family, Happiness, Life Issues, Parenting
Like so many important things, parenting is something you learn to do in retrospect, which makes it a wild ride for child and parent as life is lived forward. This means most children have to forgive their parents for their mistakes. Recently I was reminded that there...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 7, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
Sometimes, something stares you in the face but you don’t see it till someone points it out to you. It never occurred to me that the Hebrew structuring of a day was night/day rather than day/night. But there it is in the creation account. Genesis 1:31 reads: “God saw...
