by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 30, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose
Once a year the glitterati of U.S. television gather to honour their own. Known as the Emmys, this year’s award ceremony was the 55th. You’ve seen one Emmy you’ve seen them all. Yet there was something a bit different about this year’s Emmys....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 22, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Church, Life Issues, Preaching & Teaching, Relationships
It was a short email. All it said was: “Dear Soo-Inn, Thank you for walking with us.” It was the subject of the email that made it special. It read: “The Emmaus Road”. The email came from one of the students in my preaching class. This was the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 15, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Death & Grief, Family, Life Issues, Widowhood
I am reluctant to speak. I look at you and I have some idea of what you are going through. More than that, I have some idea of what you will be going through. Ten years after losing my wife I am just beginning to get some feel of the solo dance we need to learn after...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 2, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
We first met in 1975. We were in the same residential college at university. We met again on Tuesday night, for dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe in Singapore. Ours was a friendship that had been forged, tested and lived out through the years. Almost three decades now....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 18, 2003 | 2003, Aging, Articles, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose
Would you like to live for three hundred years? The bible tells us that Enoch lived three hundred and sixty five years before God took him. Enlightenment scholarship had a field day with age spans like Enoch’s. No one could possibly live that long. It must be...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 27, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Loving Others, Work & Vocation
The boys and I went to see ‘Finding Nemo’ last Sunday. Cool dad-son bonding film. I had only one beef about the movie. I hated the way the dentist was portrayed. (Let me declare up front that I was trained as a dentist and practised that noble profession...
