It is wonderful to see the out pouring of support for Ukraine in the current crisis. Everything from grocery stores getting you to round up for a donation to Ukraine to businesses offering package deals with proceeds going to Ukraine to IT/hackers going after Russian banks. Add that to governments actually making some hard choices […]
Cabbages and Kings
Few things annoy me more than displays of unmerited entitlement. Putin’s attack on Ukraine, for example. He has justified it by saying that Ukraine has always been part of Russia and has no culture of its own. As my Russian friends might say “the roof of his house has blown away.” He must be crazy. […]
Book, Book burning bright
I love books. I have always loved books. Before I could read I loved them and I have loved them ever sense. Their contents, their construction, their smell. I love books and I have consumed a vast amount of them and a wide variety at that. So one might see how I have a problems […]
Preparing for the worst
The situation in Ukraine is still unresolved and tensions are mounting. The Western missionaries, and indeed most of the non-media Westerners, have been pulled out. My sources tell me that the Ukrainian Baptists are preparing for the worst. Specifically the invasion of the Eastern half of Ukraine. The Baptist Union tin the country has mobilized […]
Dangerous things to say
Malik Faisal Akram took hostages at a synagogue near Fort Worth last week, after an almost 11 hour standoff the hostages were free and he was dead. His stated purpose was to free Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani with a PhD in neuroscience who is serving a federal prison sentence in Fort Worth after being found […]
Prayer Request for Ukraine
Will there be war? Most of my life was lived under the pall of war between the US and the Soviet Union. Then the Soviet Union fell and those tensions seemed to have vanished. Clearly not the case anymore. Specifically, we look at Ukraine, a place near my heart. I lived in the capital, Kyiv, […]