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BY ERIKTRYGGESTAD | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
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LOVED ONES STRUGGLE to understand
17-year-old’s decision to open fire.
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for Churches of Christ
Vol. 75, No. 21 February 2018
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Igor Kozlovsky endured
700 days of anguish, torture,
sickness and inhumane living
conditions at the hands of his
captors, the pro-Russian sepa-
ratists who seized control of his
homeland in eastern Ukraine.
The 63-year-old author, theol-
ogy professor and preacher
for Churches of Christ was
an outspoken critic of the war
that has divided
the Eastern
European nation
„ since 2014. Militia
| men accused
him of espionage
against their
self-proclaimed
Donetsk People’s
Republic.
Jan. 27, 2016, Kozlovsky spent a
month in a crowded basement
with other prisoners.
At one point, his captors placed
a cloth bag over his head, locked
him in handcuffs and forced him
to hold a pair of grenades, which
they claimed they had found
behind a bookshelf in his apart-
ment For hours, they beat him
with “something that felt like
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Morgan Womley, 15, from the Heritage Place Church of Christ in Birmingham, Ala., sings the national anthem
at a hockey game attended by thousands of teens from Churches of Christ. The outing to the Huntsville Havoc-
Birmingham Bulls game came as part of the annual Exposure Youth Camp. RELATED COVERAGE Page 17
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.
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Charles Smith Jr. — “C.J.” to friends and rela-
tives — lay in an open casket adorned with red
and white flowers and flanked by a giant memo-
rial banner featuring the 17-year-old high school
senior in his blue cap and gown.
Some sported dark suits and fancy dresses.
Others wore jeans __
and T-shirts embla-
zoned with Smith’s
smiling face. Loved
ones choked
back tears as they
approached the
coffin and kissed
the teen on the way
to their pews.
The death of any
young person is
tragic, be it from
cancer or a car
wreck.
The circum-
stances of Smith’s
final moments,
though, are particu- The program for Charles Smith
larly perplexing to Jr.'s funeral shows the high school
those trying to make senior in his blue cap and gown,
sense of the baptized
believer’s untimely passage from, as one funeral
speaker described it, “earth to glory.”
“Like many of us from time to time, he made
bad judgments,” Duncan Martin, minister for the
Southside Church of Christ in Little Rock, said
in Smith’s eulogy. “But bad judgment does not
deserve a death sentence. If that were true, this
auditorium would be empty today.”
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