A Prayer for Our Times
How soon, how soon, / I ask plead beg / Before you enter in once more / to strike the heart of darkness / rampant in our world?
Evacuation angels
Thirty missionaries with Intercede International’s partner ministry Father’s House and 147 children in their care made a harrowing escape from close to Kyiv, Ukraine, to nearby Poland, arriving in early March. Here are moments of their journey, as reported by Father’s House leader Roman Korniyko. Angels All Around Us The offer of two buses by…
Putin’s recklessness
In 1918 pandemic followed war. In 2022 war has followed pandemic. Few of us saw it coming. Up to the last moment, I thought Russian President Vladimir Putin would continue to chip away at Ukraine’s largely Russian-speaking eastern territories, funding “separatists” and daring the rest of the world to do something about it. I personally…
Ukraine’s silent epidemic
My husband and I spent eleven years as missionaries in Nikopol, Ukraine before returning to Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2015. While the situation on the border of Ukraine is urgent, the country is already fighting its own silent epidemic. For 80 years the Soviet Union told Ukrainians that there is no God. Today the nation of…
The empire against the Rus’
Like many others, I will spend today monitoring the tense situation on Ukraine’s border. The number of Russian and Belarusian troops are increasing. They stand ready to invade at a moment’s notice. Russian naval landing craft of both the Baltic and Caspian fleets have entered the Black Sea. Trainloads of troops from the far reaches…
A Young Hero in Ukraine
In the opening chapter of this juvenile novel based on a true story, 12-year-old Krystia and her family celebrate on June 28, 1941 in Viteretz, Ukraine, as advancing German forces push out the Soviet army. But what seems like a new beginning is anything but that. The Germans – Nazis – quickly show their true colours.
The world stage: Confusion and despair
As the long days of summer give way to autumn’s disappearing sun, and as frost greets each morning, Canadians retreat to the warmth of our homes and the sense of protection they provide. We shared many a summer night with family and friends, often shielding our too-short vacations from the anxieties induced by global current events. Yet the world’s war-torn strife remains.
Putin’s World
Clearly, the West has underestimated Putin’s resolve not to let the Ukraine buffer be brought unchallenged into the western sphere of influence. An absolutely bottom-line, non-negotiable issue is Russia’s access to its Black Sea port, which also has access to the Mediterranean. And that access happens to be in none other than the Crimea, at the port of Sevastopol.
