What's it like to serve God under the siege of war in the Ukraine?

What theological questions are raised as a result of the war, especially about the goodness

and sovereignty of God?

And how are the churches dealing with the trauma of war?

We'll address these questions and more with our guest, Anna, who will go by first name

only to protect her identity.

I'm your host, Scott Ray.

I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell.

This is Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

Anna, you're a faculty member, Talbot graduate and on-site assistant at the Kiev Theological

Seminary in partnership with Talbot, and you've been in Ukraine for the duration of the war.

So tell us a little bit just what's it been like being in the country during this time of war?

Being in Ukraine during the war time feels like living into overlapping realities.

And those realities run on the parallel tracks, like ordinary life and constant threat.

And we all learn how to walk with one foot in each world.

Currently, we have daily power blackouts with several hours per day with power, internet and electricity.

However, the country keeps its pulse.

So the coffee shops still work with generator power.

Students do their homework with the headlamps and workers finish deadlines in shelters having their kids nearby.

During the nights, it's a different reason because people have to listen more than to sleep.

And we learn all the sound signatures, like the difference between the attack drones, cruise missile, interceptors,

explosions, and that knowledge that we have never asked to require, it just becomes instinct.

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