#BeingHuman. #OnTheRoad. “For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses” (Hebrews 4:15, NKJV). Today, 23 April 2025, exactly nine months separate me from that July day when the body of my brother Andrii, a senior lieutenant of the medical service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a military doctor… Continue reading

After almost three weeks of journaling and reflection on this Gospel story, writing as someone who feels like one of the disciples fleeing the pain of Gethsemane. In moments of deepest spiritual crisis, when the reality of a full-scale war destroys our conceptions of God and of how He acts in the world, we sometimes… Continue reading

Why is it that since 2014, when Russian forces silently occupied Crimea, the “world” whispered for restraint from Ukraine—but not from the Kremlin? How telling that after eight years of simmering Russian war in Donbas, when missiles finally rained on Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the “chorus for peace” grew louder—yet still directed at those… Continue reading

#BeingHuman. During two recent international trips, at least three evangelical ministers, one of them from the Czech Republic, tried to explain to me that Ukraine is an artificial country with a fabricated national identity, a fabricated language and a fabricated church. As a Ukrainian Christian I found this hard to hear, and harder still after… Continue reading

#BeingHuman. #BrutalHonesty. From Saturday morning reflections and journaling, written to document our raw experience of this war. Another idea now in circulation, and you have heard it from a representative of the White House, holds that russians fought and died for Ukrainian territory and that the territory should therefore belong to russia. As a principle… Continue reading

#BeingHuman. #BrutalHonesty. To my friends and readers in the West… The argument that russian-speaking territories of Ukraine should belong to russia, which I have heard many times from russian and Western evangelicals and not only from politicians on either side, would ruin your countries along with ours if anyone applied it consistently, and would redraw… Continue reading

PREAMBLE. Since 2014, and especially after the full-scale russian invasion of 24 February 2022, I have been collecting these questions out of numerous conversations and exchanges of correspondence with Ukrainian and russian evangelical church and seminary leaders. From the Ukrainians I gathered their expectations, and from the russians I listened to the answers and drew… Continue reading

#BeingHuman. Between light and shadow… Existential reflections on witnessing, written after the presentation of the book “Light in the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Stories of Christians”… We continue our journey, bearing witness to what our eyes have seen and our hearts have endured. Some say we wander homeless in a world that has… Continue reading