by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 1, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Life Issues, Media, Movies & Television, Relationships
“Don’t want to be an American idiot. One nation controlled by the media. Information age of hysteria. It’s going out to idiot America. Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the idiot nation Everything isn’t meant to be ok. Television...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 3, 2005 | 2005, Articles, Death & Grief, Life Issues, Relationships
It was late in the evening, February 24th 2005 I sat down to enjoy my new DVD player. I put on one of my all time favourites, Ridley Scott’s BLACK RAIN. As the opening song sounded I felt something. I was tired but I wasn’t feeling sad. Yet I was. Then I...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 19, 2004 | 2004, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
“Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.” 3 John v.2 ESV Some become doctors because they are called by God. Others because they are called by their parents. And others still, by...
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 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 | Mar 13, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Life Issues, Relationships
I spent my birthday lunch with an old friend. We met at the Lake Club. As usual, we talked about work, family, friends, church, and key world events. But as always I realized that the meaning of such encounters was more than the sum of the parts. There was, for me...
