Prot. Dionysius Dunaevsky. “Silent Ukrainian night...”: how one school lesson exposed the spiritual catastrophe of the eratranslated
On the day of knowledge, we invite young readers and their mentors to remember the story of Viktor Dragunsky about Denis Korablev. Where the boy sees stars, silence and the living memory of his deceased grandfather, the geography teacher sees only a meteorological report. This scene is not just a humorous sketch, but an accurate theological diagnosis: reductionism, the reduction of the living to the dead, the high to the low.
How not to lose the ability to wonder and contemplate in a world where everything is measured by algorithms and efficiency? Where is the boundary between knowledge and understanding, between learning and wisdom? A new article by the missionary, head of the department for youth affairs of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk diocese, Archpriest Dionisy Dunaevsky, suggests understanding this through the prism of patristic teaching and classical literature.
Sacrament against reduction: what Dragunsky talked about in “Silent Ukrainian Night”
There is a special kind of spiritual deafness that cannot be recognized by ordinary hearing. A person can have an education, hold a teaching position, master scientific terminology - and at the same time be completely unable to hear the main thing. It was precisely this kind of deafness that Viktor Dragunsky wrote about in one of the most...



