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 | 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...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 13, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, God, God’s Sovereignty, Life Issues, Suffering
Christians are not spared the storms of life. This came home to me afresh when I met three medical students in Budapest recently. Coming from Nigeria they had paid a hefty cost to enter a medical school in Ukraine. They were in the 3rd and 4th years of their studies....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 16, 2021 | 2021, Articles, God, Life Issues, Suffering
These are dark and terrible times for me (and the family) Asking for prayers… Saw the above posting on a friend's Facebook page. I PMed him and found out that indeed his family was going through a very rough time. This seems to be the kind of postings I am...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 2, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Jesus, Jesus' Death, Life Issues, Suffering
I have been preaching Good Friday and Easter Sunday sermons for the past, what, 40 years? Some years are harder than others. This will be a hard year. I am here praying and reflecting on what to preach this weekend. But my heart is heavy. * Two young people dear to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 25, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, Growth, Life Issues, Loving Others, Suffering
I told her I was back in Penang to see my mum. Mum is 92, with dementia, and I don’t know how much more time I will have with her. She said she was back in Penang to see her brother. He had been in a coma for four months. Her brother was involved in a road traffic...
