Author: Stephen Dawe

  • One of the problems I’ve tended to have with materialism is how it seems to place into my own (subjective) mind (actually brain… and hence render them largely delusional as it relate to the universe itself). This isn’t only the case with my religious ideas, but also the ideas I have of good and evil, and…

  • So this morning I again ran into the issue of fan death in Korea through a facebook comment, and I had a chance to reflect on my experience… A quick explanation: Fan death is the belief that if a person on a hot day closes off their room and falls asleep with a fan pointed…

  • This week marks one year since I first arrived in Korea and began to preach at the English Worship Service at Sangdang Presbyterian Church. I have to say that pastoral ministry is greatly different than I had imagined it to be, though I’m betting much of that has to do with the different kind of…

  • For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (Psalm 139:13-14) Dad: We made a beautiful daughter (4 year old) Daughter: God made me, and you are not God. As I was…

  • “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” I Corinthians 10:31 It may be that I like omelets too much. Many people are moved to worship of God by great music, decent preaching, and other more “Churchy” things. I wonder though, if at the end…