ukraine
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Whispers of Russian Aggression…
I am one of the men standing in those lines for a military medical reevaluation. These are existential observations, a long way from Hollywood patriotism, and you will not read them in the news about the russian war in Ukraine. I dare to share them. Our Mission has not changed. I wish you a blessed… Continue reading
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When “Christian Values” Kill: The Color of Blood is Red
For many people in russia and in the collective West, all of this is a matter of perspective. For us in Ukraine, those perspectives have a colour, the colour of the blood of people killed and tortured and raped here and in other so-called locations, all of it in the name of Values, and that… Continue reading
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The Gospel vs. The Russian World: Incompatible Visions
Being a Christian asks more of us than opposing a war, since it means grasping the Mission of the Kingdom of God and holding to its values, and from that it follows that Christians have to condemn the ideology beneath russia’s war against Ukraine along with the war itself, which is to say the concept… Continue reading
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Keep your children away from the war
Exposing children to the trauma and the horror of war leaves psychological wounds that last, since their brains are still forming and they have none of the emotional maturity that processing such experiences would require. Witnessing violence and destruction and death produces post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, and lasting difficulty in forming healthy relationships as adults,… Continue reading
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Mandatory military conscription on occupied territories
According to a decree issued by Denis Pushilin, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, mandatory military conscription begins on 1 April in Mariupol and the surrounding region. The decree requires every man between eighteen and thirty to report to the military registration and enlistment office for service in the armed forces under russian control,… Continue reading
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When Names Become Lifelines: The Unimaginable Choices of War-Torn Ukraine
#BeingHuman. To my friends and partners in the “collective” West. Look closely at the photograph of this child’s back, where her name, her date of birth and the phone numbers of her mama and papa have been written in permanent marker. What you are seeing is the ordinary reality of hundreds of thousands of children… Continue reading
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What is logically wrong with this title: “Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview Explains Less Than Ukraine’s Evangelicals”
As an evangelical Christian living through russia’s invasion of my homeland, I was appalled by the title of that article, which suggests that our firsthand testimony of what is being done to us belongs on the same scale as the misinformation delivered in a putin puff piece. Millions of our people have been driven from… Continue reading
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The Failures of Accountability in A Post-Truth World
It is the 716th day of the full-scale russian war and of bloodshed that does not stop. A few words on the poisonous appeal of propaganda and on what happens when putin’s narratives are normalised. What we watched was a long and tedious monologue full of lies and historical falsehoods rather than an interview. Do… Continue reading
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Forming Ministers Amid the Fog of War
Traveling through southern Ukraine’s seminaries, I witnessed the immense toll of the ongoing full-scale war on those training Christian leaders. Exhaustion marks everyone: emotional fatigue, mental weariness, and physical tiredness. Yet, the work continues. Students become military chaplains, professors face hard choices, and leaders make difficult decisions. Moral clarity emerges not from comfort but in… Continue reading
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Reconciling Theological Educational Missions and Wartime Imperatives
The war in Ukraine has displaced millions, creating a theological and practical challenge for educators training future Christian leaders. They must balance their educational mission with the urgent needs of refugees, widows, orphans, and traumatized survivors. Faith without works is dead; theological education must be rooted in empathy, mercy, and shared sacrifice to provide hope… Continue reading
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