2026
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A New Lesson, a Little Inconvenient, On Christian Leadership and the Shape of Partnership in Wartime…
#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,… Continue reading
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On the Great Benefits Of Ukrainian Christians Being Silent…
If 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… Continue reading
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Seventy a day… A Place Where Someone Stays
#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… Continue reading
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Vulnerability: leadership that does not hide its wounds, and restoration that does not pretend at healing
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… Continue reading

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