Church: Ditch Beer for Books

Revelers should swap beer and dancing for tea and reading at “spiritual nightclubs” organized by the Russian Orthodox Church, a senior church official said. Many young people don’t sleep at night, and the church needs to “give them a place where they could at 2, 3, 4 or 5 in the morning have an opportunity for serious dialogue, reading and unhurried conversation over a cup of tea,” Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said in […]