#BeingHuman. A new lesson, and a slightly inconvenient one: 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… Continue reading

#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

#BeingHuman. Part two of my reflections on David’s leadership during collective trauma, following “Leadership Lessons from the Ruins of Ziklag.” The marathon continues, and not everyone can cross the stream. This war reveals who we really are once the masks come off. Three years into it, we have learned something unsettling about human endurance: it… Continue reading

#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

Hardship and comfort are distributed unevenly across global Christianity. Some churches flourish in societies with religious freedom and political stability, in certain cases under the protection of nuclear powers, while others persist under pressure of many kinds: state-sanctioned persecution, authoritarian rule, civil war, full-scale invasion, ethnic conflict, religious extremism. That gap produces different lived experiences… Continue reading

“We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God,” wrote John Stott. In the shadow of that stirring call lies an uncomfortable reality: while we proclaim a global God, our global vision often stops at the borders of war zones. Indigenous churches living inside those wars face a… Continue reading