The children of Ukraine are paying the true cost of war: How to be a peacemaker where you live
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
As the war in Ukraine drags on, its true cost can be seen in the faces of the thousands of children who have survived or have lost a parent. As governments fight to not join the fight, what can we do as individual Christians to effect positive change? The biblical example of Jonathan provides an answer.
Author: Ryan Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, July the 21st, 2023. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:14.5 | Quote, kids didn't start the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:17.5 | They aren't fighting it. |
| 0:18.5 | They won't be responsible for ending it. |
| 0:20.7 | They have had little to say in the matter, yet they't fighting it. They won't be responsible for ending it. They have had little to say in the |
| 0:22.6 | matter, yet they have suffered deeply." End quote. Few would argue with the truth of those words, |
| 0:28.8 | but as the war in Ukraine drags on, it can be easy to forget that the casualties reported |
| 0:34.2 | do not represent the totality of lives lost in the struggle. Every soldier who |
| 0:39.1 | dies takes the life their family previously knew to the grave with them, and that change |
| 0:45.1 | is often felt most by their children. To that end, Mona El Nagar, Jonah M. Cassell, and |
| 0:52.4 | Alexander Stockton traveled to the war-torn nation to bring back a small glimpse |
| 0:57.6 | into how Ukraine is trying to help the more than 5,000 children who have lost a parent in the war. |
| 1:03.8 | They call it Wonder Camp, a two-week retreat intended to give grieving kids the space |
| 1:09.5 | and support to confront their pain and begin to heal. |
| 1:12.6 | The camp is part of the larger effort by children of heroes group to provide educational, |
| 1:17.6 | housing, legal, and psychological support to the kids until they turn 18. |
| 1:22.6 | Their testimonies, relayed in a video, provide an insight and heightened awareness into what this war has already cost. |
| 1:30.2 | A link to the video is in today's episode notes. But, lest we forget, even more families in Russia are facing the same fate with no end in sight. |
| 1:40.4 | It has been almost 17 months since Russia first invaded Ukraine, and the nature of the headlines hasn't changed much. |
| 1:46.9 | This week alone, we've been greeted with news of Russia bombing the ports in Odessa, |
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