BEING HUMAN

Contemplating the Divine and Earthly through Human Eyes • Споглядання Божественного і земного очима людини


  • Vulnerability: leadership that does not hide its wounds, and restoration that does not pretend at healing

    16–24 minutes
    3,858 words

    Address 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 minutes
    3,005 words

    Виступ 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 minutes
    684 words

    BeingHuman? 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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  • The Russian mill grinds 371,534 times in thirty days, one every 6.98 seconds…

    4–6 minutes
    1,016 words

    BeingHuman? Throughout April 2026, Russian forces conducted 5,095 combat engagements along the front line. They launched 2,093 air strikes and dropped 6,720 guided aerial bombs. Short-range kamikaze and FPV drones deployed against frontline cities and villages: 260,234. Artillery shellings: 96,119 strike events (that is, individual shelling incidents, not the number of shells fired), of which 2,322 came from MLRS systems. Across 30 nights of overnight attacks, Russia launched 6,222 long-range…

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