On March 15, Russian police detained Anastasia Parshkova, a young woman who stood outside Moscow’s main Orthodox cathedral holding a sign that read, “Thou shalt not kill.” Those words, straight from the biblical Ten Commandments, represented one reason why people of faith might be opposed to the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine on February...
How a war in Ukraine leads to suffering in Haiti
We are all feeling the impact of increasing gas prices, which have climbed 27% since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24. It feels massively insensitive to complain about gas prices when thousands of lives have been lost. But I’ve come to realize that soaring gas prices have a sinister hidden impact that...
A modern Dunkirk: Local churches in Ukraine offer rescue and respite
In 1940, Germany’s army was aggressively advancing across Europe. As nations surrendered, a group of Allied soldiers was pushed back to the French seaport of Dunkirk. Over 400,000 soldiers were trapped between the advancing German Army and the English Channel. Because of the shallow waters, large warships could not approach the beach to rescue...