The book, formed from the conversations of Hegumen Nektariy (Morozov) with Saratov journalist Elena Balayan, is a relaxed, sincere, at times sharp conversation about the Orthodox faith and the problems of church life - about the eternal and modern. What myths and stereotypes surround the Church today and everything that happens in it? What does the life of a priest and just a believer look like "from the inside"? How to relate to those social processes and phenomena that a modern Christian cannot but notice? And what does it mean to be faithful to Christ today? The desire to understand what confuses and sometimes repels "external" people from the Church - on the part of a secular journalist, openness to any, including painful, topics - on the part of a priest - are the characteristic features of this book. To become a mental participant in this dialogue - interlocutors very different, but wishing to understand each other - and is offered to a caring reader.