Can secular music lead to God? Parsuna by Alexey Puzakovtranslated

Why is faith not just a ritual, but a search for support? How can the gospel become “recognition” of the familiar? What did the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus' mean for those who were inside the Church? And why is Bach’s music a conversation with God, while “The Brothers Karamazov” remains a book of youth?

Vladimir LEGOYDA

Editor-in-chief of the magazine "Foma", professor at MGIMO, candidate of political sciences, professor at Sirius University.

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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 Alexey Puzakov. Alexey Alexandrovich, hello.

Hello.

I am very glad to welcome you. Well, as we have had time to discuss a little, in this short prologue, before we move on to the first topic, I want to ask you a question that is always asked at the beginning of our meetings. Lately it has sounded like this: like today, here and now, would you...