Former Editor Reveals Russian Orthodox Church’s Ties to Putin and Ukraine Invasion as Sinful

Sergei Chapnin is a senior fellow at the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University in New York City. He’s also an art curator and journalist. He was once the executive editor at The Journal of The Moscow Patriarchate before he had a falling out with leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church over his concerns that the church was becoming too close to the state and to Vladimir Putin. Chapnin spoke with ReligionUnplugged.com executive editor Paul Glader recently about the war in Ukraine and the risks the war poses to Orthodox Christianity with a widening set of fault lines.