2025
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Late-night reflections in peaceful Chisinau on the scandal of Daniel’s windows
#BeingHuman. #ExistentialHonesty. How to pray about Ukraine during a peace deal. Late-night reflections in peaceful Chisinau on the scandal of Daniel’s windows, and on praying toward the rubble. Daniel opened his windows toward Jerusalem three times a day. Not toward Babylon, the city where he lived and worked and prospered, now the seat of a… Continue reading
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Theology in Action: Freedom to Hear the Other Without Fear of Losing Yourself
On 12 December 2025, Ernest Clark, the CTO of Mesa Global, and I took part in the interfaith forum “Called to Freedom,” organized by the Institute for Trauma Healing around Galatians 5:13–14: “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty” (NKJV). The forum gathered more than two hundred faith-based counselors, advisors, facilitators and church ministers… Continue reading
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Роздуми не пастора на захист пасторів
У соцмережах уже давно з’явився особливий різновид християнського блогерства, і я назвав би його радше цинічно-руйнівним, ніж пророчим. Ідеться не про всіх, хто критично осмислює церковне й пасторське життя, бо така рефлексія необхідна, а про тих, хто системно, методично й майже з насолодою розбирає пасторське служіння на частини, не лишаючи жодного простору для поваги до… Continue reading
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2025 Advent reflection from Ukraine
My sermon today at Skelya Church, on Luke 22:31–32 and John 21:15–19: “that your faith should not fail.” Six contemplations… One I step into Advent for the fourth time, on the 1376th day of this war. Watching empires trade Ukraine like property, our land and our mineral resources and our people treated as merchandise because… Continue reading
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On hatred, lament, and the right to grieve [part 9]
#BeingHuman. #BrutalHonesty. Offered as clarification rather than justification, to our friends and partners outside Ukraine, on hatred, lament, and the right to grieve during this war. We in Ukraine often hear the question of how Ukrainian Christians are dealing with hatred. It usually arrives wrapped in spiritual concern, sometimes in accusation, occasionally in genuine pastoral… Continue reading
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The challenge of the other way for the wise men…
#BeingHuman. Night reflections on what happens when theological language masks authoritarian intent. A reading of Matthew 2:7–8. “Then Herod, when he had secretly called the wise men, determined from them what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, ‘Go and search carefully for the young Child, and when you have… Continue reading
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About pious scribes of death, and dead children…
#BeingHuman. On correct biblical words, pious scribes of death, and dead children. By their fruits you shall know them, and what happens when Scripture becomes a weapon. Modern evangelicals have met an ancient temptation in a new form, one that arrives wrapped in the garments of piety rather than in open apostasy. It looks like… Continue reading
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The capacity to grieve one death while growing comfortable with hundreds of thousands…
#BeingHuman. #BrutalHonesty. On August 22, 2025, Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska (23 years old) was fatally stabbed on a Charlotte light rail train by Decarlos Brown Jr. (34 years old), a homeless man with mental health issues and a criminal record. Iryna fled Ukraine in 2022 with her family to escape the Russian invasion and was… Continue reading
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“Чучело” і ми…
#БутиЛюдиною. #Чучело. «Я була на вогнищі». Знайшов недописану чернетку з 2014 року і через одинадцять років, в останній поїздці, з якої сьогодні повернувся, дописав її. Пам’ять теж Божий дар. Ролан Биков завжди був незручним для радянської системи, бо його фільми про дітей виявилися надто чесними для країни, яка хотіла бачити своє майбутнє в рожевих окулярах.… Continue reading
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When trauma meets trauma… when broken people approach the unbroken God…
#BeingHuman. When trauma meets trauma in a divine consultation, or how broken people learn to help other broken people approach the unbroken God. One. The wounded priest who lost everything. Abiathar carried wounds that never fully healed. “Now one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David”… Continue reading
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