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Seventy a day… A Place Where Someone Stays
3–5 minutes778 words#BeingHuman. Dear friends, greetings from Lviv. Roman, Oleksandr, and I are deep in the work now, going through the chapters with the authors. It is humbling to edit a book on pastoral ministry during war, while the war is still being fought around the very people writing it. Some of our authors serve in the Ukrainian army; a few are writing from the front line itself, sending paragraphs between “duties,”…
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Vulnerability: leadership that does not hide its wounds, and restoration that does not pretend at healing
16–24 minutes3,858 wordsAddress at the conference of Ukrainian Evangelical Theological Seminary, “Wounded Leadership: Challenges and Paths of Restoration.” 22–23 May 2026, Pushcha-Vodytsia, Ukraine. Let me begin not with a thesis, but with a question that, I suspect, has long lived in each of us. When the risen Christ passed through the locked doors to His disciples in the room and said, “Peace to you,” why – and to what end – did…
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Вразливість: лідерство, яке не приховує ран, і відновлення, яке не вдає зцілення
13–19 minutes3,005 wordsВиступ на конференції Української євангельської теологічної семінарії «Зранене лідерство: виклики та шляхи відновлення»22-23 травня 2026 р., Пуща Водиця, Україна. Дозвольте почати не з тези, а з запитання, яке, підозрюю, вже давно живе в кожному з нас. Коли воскреслий Христос пройшов через зачинені двері до учнів у кімнату і сказав: «Мир вам», чому і навіщо Він показав їм Свої руки й бік? Чому і навіщо тіло, яке перемогло смерть, зберегло на…
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Four months, 780 dead, 4,352 injured, 1,532 days, and the messengers are still arriving…
3–4 minutes684 wordsBeingHuman? As I am writing this on Blablacar (car sharing service) on the road from Kyiv, I got the news that the death toll of the Russian peaceful strike on Zaporizhzhia today took the lives of another 12… In the first four months of 2026, Russians killed at least 780 Ukrainian civilians and injured at least 4,352. It means one civilian is killed every 3 hours and 41 minutes, and…
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