Navalny and Courage

Scripture-ish · Apr 9, 2026 · 36m · transcript

Alexei Navalny died on February 16, 2024, and a few days later (Feb 21) I spoke briefly about him in a chapel service at Heritage Christian University. If you listen to that speech (see the video here), you’ll find that I really didn’t know much about Navalny at the time, just what had been widely reported. His memoir, Patriot, was published a few months later, and I eagerly read it. By the way, while in prison, Navalny mentioned that one of the reasons he was writing the memoir was for the royalties that would come to his family in case of his own death. “Let’s face it, if a murky…