2025
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Leadership Lessons from the Ruins of Ziklag
#BeingHuman. My Sunday sermon of 29 June 2025, on the leadership lessons I draw from David’s trust in God amid collective trauma. Everything else we are learning about leadership in Ukraine lies between the lines. To be continued in part two. David and his six hundred soldiers return to find nothing, since their city of… Continue reading
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On Being Human in Fatigue [part 8]
#BeingHuman. #BrutalHonesty. Offered as clarification rather than justification, for our friends and partners outside Ukraine, to help them understand what fatigue means here. I often hear people say, Taras, you are tired, you need to rest. Yes, I am tired, and yes, sometimes I rest, though I am no longer sure what that word means.… Continue reading
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God speaks Ukrainian, too…
Today the Global Church celebrates Pentecost, the gift of languages and the birth of global mission. As a Ukrainian Christian, I want to address the systematic assault on the Ukrainian language and identity carried out by russian propaganda under the banner of protecting traditional Christian values. And this concerns more than Ukraine, since russian aggression… Continue reading
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«Чи я сторож брата свого?»…
«Чи я сторож брата свого?» Це питання Каїн кинув Богові, ніби між іншим, після того, як убив Авеля, і це була перша в історії спроба вислизнути від моральної відповідальності, перший приклад того, що дехто з християн сьогодні називає позицією «обидві сторони винні». Позаминулої ночі російські дрони й ракети знову падали на українські міста. Знову вбиті… Continue reading
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From Cain to Kyiv… Moral Clarity in Dark Times…
#BeingHuman. #BrutalHonesty. On Cain’s question: am I my brother’s keeper? This was Cain’s question to God after he murdered his brother Abel, the first recorded attempt in human history to dodge moral responsibility, and the first attempt at both-sides-ism. Today, as Ukrainian cities burn, as they did again last night in yet another massive russian… Continue reading
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Between Ascension and Descent
#BeingHuman. The clouds that received Christ at His ascension have grown darker over Ukraine with every day and night since 2014. Standing beneath the same sky that swallowed our risen Lord, we watch other clouds gather: the smoke of besieged cities, the ash of lives reduced to rubble, and the fog of moral confusion that… Continue reading
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The holy space of solitude with God
#BeingHuman. These reflections, and I cannot live or work without journaling, were born yesterday evening in the silence that followed Vita’s funeral, our pastor’s beloved wife now laid to rest. Sitting alone and preparing today’s sermon, with fresh grief pressing against the necessity of Sunday morning ministry, and with my brother Andrii still in that… Continue reading
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The war that moved inside… [part 7]
#BeingHuman. #BrutalHonesty. The war that moved inside. To our friends and partners outside Ukraine, and offered as clarification rather than justification. In 2022 and 2023 we were often asked how it is to live in the context of war, and I believe it is time to ask a different question: how do you live with… Continue reading
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Dialogue Between Ukraine and the Diaspora in Search of a Common Theological and Missional Voice
From May 12-14, 2025, a strategic conference-consultation “Mission of Ukrainian Churches in the European Diaspora” took place in Warsaw, bringing together 24 participants from Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Moldova, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The event united representatives of evangelical denominations, theological educators, pastors, and missionaries to discuss crucial issues facing Ukrainian churches… Continue reading
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Life on the Edge between Pain and Hope
#BeingHuman. While we stand over the fresh graves of the people we loved, and while Ukrainian mothers clutch the embroidered shirts of fallen defenders as their last physical connection to sons who gave everything, many russian pastors go on offering prayers for Putin and thanking him for protecting their motherland through the very violence that… Continue reading
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