by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 2, 2016 | 2016, Articles, Books, Media
In the introduction to his book The Longing for Home, Frederick Buechner writes: Time, like the receding waters of the ocean, bears all of us who are time’s children farther and farther away from the near shore and closer and closer to those mysterious depths...
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by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 28, 2014 | 2014, Articles, Books, Media, Violence, World Issues
Crime novelist PD James, who penned more than 20 books, has died aged 94. Her agent said she died “peacefully at her home in Oxford” on Thursday morning. The author’s books, many featuring sleuth Adam Dalgliesh, sold millions of books around the...
by Bernice Lee | May 12, 2012 | 2012, Art & Beauty, Articles, Books, Media
Confession is good for the soul, I have been told. So I shall indulge. How often have you looked at a piece of Christian art or product and cringed because it is just so much kitsch? I confess right now that I have, and it saddens me. Why is it that we, who have a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 3, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Books, Graceworks, Media, Publishing
When people learn that I have read The Lord of The Rings nine times, they shake their heads and politely suggest that I should get therapy. I am sure they are right for this and many other reasons. But it may well be that Tolkien’s trilogy may have in fact saved...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 23, 2009 | 2009, Articles, Books, Graceworks, Media
Writing has never come easy for me. I prefer to preach or teach any time. When I stand before a group of people and preach or teach, I see some results of my work straight away. Your listeners may love you or they may hate you but you have a pretty good idea from...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 22, 2003 | 2003, Articles, Books, Media
I wasn’t too hot about Dan Brown’s first book, “Digital Fortress”. His latest offering, “The Da Vinci Code” however, is a great read. It almost deserves the many laudatory blurbs plastered all over the cover. Here’s the one...
