#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

#BeingHuman. When trauma meets trauma in “divine consultation”… as broken people, we learn to support other broken people in approaching the unbroken God… “Situation 1”. Wounded priest who lost everything… Abiathar carried the wounds that never fully healed. “Now one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after… Continue reading

#BeingHuman [in English]. Part 2 of my reflections on David’s leadership lessons during collective trauma… (See Part 1: “Leadership Lessons from the Ruins of Ziklag”). The “marathon” continues, and not all can cross the stream… The Russian war reveals who we really are when the masks come off… Three years into this “marathon” of Russian… Continue reading

#BeingHuman [in English]. My Sunday sermon on June 29, 2025, on the leadership lessons I learn from David’s trust in God amidst collective trauma… Everything else that we learn about our leadership in Ukraine is in between the lines… [to be continued with p. 2] David and his six hundred soldiers return to find nothing:… Continue reading

Hardship and comfort are distributed unevenly across global Christianity. Some churches flourish in societies with religious freedom and political stability (in some cases, under the protection of nuclear powers); others persist under pressure of many kinds: state-sanctioned persecution, authoritarian dictatorships, civil wars, full-scale military invasions, ethnic conflicts, religious extremism. This gap produces not only different… Continue reading

“We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.” – John Stott. In the shadow of John Stott’s stirring call for global Christianity 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… Continue reading