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A New Lesson, a Little Inconvenient, On Christian Leadership and the Shape of Partnership in Wartime…
9–14 minutes2,160 words#BeingHuman. A New Lesson, a Little Inconvenient, On Christian Leadership and the Shape of Partnership in Wartime… When we speak about seminaries, local churches, and church unions in Ukraine today, we reach almost by reflex for the language of structural change. It is a large part of what we do through the Vital Sustainability Initiative, and the word at the heart of that name, sustainability, is the quiet pressure behind…
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On the Great Benefits Of Ukrainian Christians Being Silent…
4–6 minutes946 wordsIf only Ukrainians were silent, what a joy the ministry of reconciliation would be. The Russian seminary professor could lecture on it in a Ukrainian theological seminary, untroubled by a victim in the room, and publish his paper on forgiveness in “Theological Reflections.” Because no one would interrupt, he would never once be asked by a Ukrainian student the single question the whole subject turns on: who, exactly, is to…
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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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Contemplating the Divine and Earthly through Human Eyes • Споглядання Божественного і земного очима людини
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