Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture Serving God Under Siege
Jan 27, 2026
A conversation about serving in wartime Ukraine, from blackouts and shelters to returning to work amid attacks. Theological questions about suffering, providence, conscience, and mobilization come up. Seminary life adapts with classes during sirens, chaplain training, and trauma ministry. Stories of resilience, baptisms, and changed perceptions of evangelical churches offer hope.
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Life On Two Parallel Tracks
- Living wartime feels like operating in two overlapping realities: ordinary life and constant threat.
- Anna describes daily blackouts, sirens, and learning sound signatures while still going to work each morning.
Students Facing Mobilization
- Many students and staff have been mobilized and face the real possibility of not returning.
- Anna says this forces people to confront trust in God moment by moment rather than as abstract theology.
Theology As Necessity, Not Luxury
- The hunger for theological learning has intensified during the war as questions become matters of survival.
- Classrooms have become mentoring rooms where scripture is read with new seriousness and leaders are reshaped for harder work.