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 | Apr 11, 2025 | 2025, Books, God's Word
Too busy to read books? Maybe that’s why you should. Most of us can empathise with Hugh McGuire when he writes: … I found myself drowning in a flood of easy information. The internet — and all the lovely things on it … — provides...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 18, 2022 | 2022, Books, Remembrance
This is how Frederick Buechner begins his book Speak What We Feel: It is Red Smith who is reported to have said that it’s really very easy to be a writer — all you have to do is sit down at the typewriter and open a vein. (Speak What We Feel [New York, NY:...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 21, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Books, God, God's Word, Media
It was 1974. I was a first-year student in the Faculty of Dentistry in the then University of Singapore. My residential hall, KE Hall, had a small library and I was there trying to study for upcoming exams. In a moment of boredom, I decided to check out the collection...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 16, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Books, Media, Movies & Television
One shouldn’t be surprised when one hears that a 95-year-old man has passed away, but there are certain bigger-than-life persons whose death will always surprise you. I was surprised to hear about the death of Stan Lee, one of the founders of Marvel comics and...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 28, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Books, Jesus, Jesus' Death, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose
At a recent camp, I took along a novel to read as my evening leisure pursuit. The campsite was rustic, with just the bare amenities and no entertainment except the surrounding forest which was gorgeous. The novel was Blue Light Yokohama by Nicolas Obregon (UK: Penguin...
