How to be a Christian and not appear to be one? Parsuna of Priest Nikolai Konyukhovtranslated

What does it mean not to play at Christianity, but to be one? Why is faith not a ritual, but work on oneself? How to distinguish your parents' faith from your own? And can the Bible be used as a “discipline stick”?

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“Parsuna” is the author’s program on the SPAS channel by the chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations of the Church with Society and the Media, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Thomas” Vladimir Legoida.

Hello, dear friends. We continue to write the “parsuns” of our contemporaries. And today our guest is priest Nikolai Konyukhov. Hello, dear father.

Vladimir Romanovich, hello.

Glad to see you.

Mutually.

We have five topics. We talked about this before recording. And actually, before the first topic, I always ask the same question, only the wording changes a little. Now, now it sounds like this: how today, here and now, would you answer the question, who are you?

Priest Nikolai KONYUKHOV

Cleric of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity at Saltykov Bridge in Moscow. Author and presenter of television programs, participant in radio and television broadcasts, author of publications in church publications. Teacher at Sretensky Theological Academy, head of missionary practice.

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