by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 30, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, God, God’s Sovereignty, Hope, World Issues
Articles in today’s (30 Dec 2021) edition of the Singapore Straits Times: Covid-19: Record number of infections worldwide in a week Myanmar: US presses for arms embargo after massacre WHO warns of ‘very high’ Omicron risk as cases spike worldwide...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 1, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Church, COVID-19, Small Groups
How healthy is your cell group? This may go by different names in different churches, like action group, care group, life group, etc. Essentially, it is part of the small-group ministry of the church. Some of us remember a time when there were no small groups. The...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 13, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Gratitude, Singapore
Periodically, my friend Pak Wah (principal of Biblical Graduate School of Theology) will ask me whether, in my heart of hearts, I am Malaysian or Singaporean? (I am Malaysian and a Singapore PR.) I will answer, “In my heart of hearts, I am...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 9, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, COVID-19, Loving Others, World Issues
Didn’t sleep very well last night. Had chills and body aches. I know why. We had our second dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in the morning. Later in the day I came across an article that said that 40 percent of white evangelicals in the US do not intend to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 28, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, Faith, Hope, Loving Others, Malaysia, World Issues
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13 NIV) Periodically, I still get asked if I have adopted Singapore citizenship, both by my Malaysian friends and by my Singaporean friends. It is an understandable...
by Dev Menon | Jul 31, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Church, Leadership, Politics, World Issues
Stage 1: Apathy I guess it could have been because I was young and barely able to vote… But even when I went to the UK, and all my local peers were so enthusiastic about policies and parties, many of us from conservative Asian countries did not resonate. We...