Conversation with the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Thomas" by Vladimir Legogyad. Doubt - does not mean not to believe. Conversation with the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Thomas" Vladimir Legogyadova Orthodox magazine

Today we publish the answers to Vladimir Romanovich to questions to him as the chief editor of the magazine "Thomas".

"Thomas" - a magazine about Orthodoxy

Several weeks on the legal walked online with Vladimir Lesbyadova - a candidate of political sciences, Professor MGIMO, chairman of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church. All readers could ask their concerns.

And why "Thomas" stopped being a magazine for doubting? Not a single discussion of acute events, not a single critical opinion on the section of the dioceses, etc. Everything is lacquered. For disconnected writing? Vladimir V.V.

Dear Vladimir V.V.!

If you really see examples of publications that we had before and not now, - write to us. You really help you make a magazine better, and I thank you in advance.

Examples can be sent to the editor to the address [Email Protected] , referring to my request. I will definitely show your letter.

For my part, I see no topics and publications that would be in the "Fome" before, and then disappeared.

What I mean? After all, the apostle doubted not as a skeptic critic, but as a person who really wanted to believe, but he needed divine assurances and got it.

There is definitely doubt and another plan. For example, those caused by the behavior of some priests and people of the Church. I would like to say that such doubt we also do not bypass. "Thomas" wrote a lot about it.

For example:

About how far from the ideal, the family life of even the most Orthodox and believing people.

A selection of materials about people living next to dying weak relatives.

"War is not giving rest" - a dispute about the Great Patriotic War and our attitude towards it today.

"The house where fate is broken" is the very hard text of Alexander Gezalov about orphanages.

"The state and family" is a whole topic of the number of more than an acute topic, it seems to me.

Just an acute and painful topic is not always a topic about politics and not always the topic of a social character. Sometimes the reasons for the inner crisis are completely different problems, and we strive to speak about the inner human life. And they always sought only to this.

As for the issue of creating new dioceses, there is also no excessive silence here. I repeatedly as the official representative of the Church personally expressed a position on this issue: the main goal of the change is declared directly - to make the church even closer to people, bring the bishops to the ordinary clergy and the Miryans, so that the pre-liberated best understood the needs and problems of their flocks, they were in a closer Contact, and did not come off from it.

Here is the position of the secular expert.

Here is my column on the same topic.

Here is a comment of the historian of the church.

But I agree - "Thomas" did not sharpen attention on this problem. The fact is that this question (as well as a number of others), being very sharp for the intracerer discussion, is not much interesting and is not too important for people of secular, that is, for the main reader "Foma".

Also, I would like to pay attention to our site, since we do not fit a lot to the log - it just lacks the volume. On the Internet, "Fomov" materials are much larger than, and their subjects are much wider.

Vladimir Romanovich!
Why does your Foma magazine do not write about politics? I understand, at another time it could be justified by some high considerations, but today this topic overshadows all the others in the public space. People want to know: what the church thinks about the political situation in the country. Is it really possible to be silent in such a situation? Unregistered

Indeed, this is not our topic. Although I can not say that we are absolutely avoiding it. Over the past month, "Foma" passed a whole series of publications on the topic related to politics. For example, or a very interesting text of our Observer Yuri Pushchava, a candidate of philosophical sciences.

We are not trying to campaign nor "for" nor "against". Our goal is to give people a tool with which they will be able to make an independent choice. I think it is very useful, especially now, when we all hurt a little more sobriety in making important solutions for the whole country.

It is a pity that there is no literary page. Please return. Unregistered

Dear unregistered user!

The crisis forced to significantly reduce the volume of the magazine. We tried to somehow compensate for the disappearance of this heading, for example, now the poetic section "Strafs" became every month. Plus, we are still typing periodically prose in the magazine and on the site.

In the event, at the same time, I also constantly press - everyone wants the literary page to return to full, but still - alas.

Is a foma magazine ready to become a magazine for wide masses (magazine with great circulation)? Is this a strategic goal of the magazine? Will you take any steps in this direction? Unregistered

Dear unregistered user!

It all depends on what to understand under the masses. In a recent interview with "Expert", I said that I see the maximum circulation of "Foma" within 50-60 thousand. But this requires a budget for promotion and again - the work of professionals.

Now the circulation of our magazine is 36 thousand, and this is a completely decent circulation to the publication, which is actually the same niche as serious secular weekly, similar to the same "expert." By the way, "Thomas" entered the list of the most quoted Russian media for the 1st quarter of 2011 according to TNS Media Intelligence.

This is connected with our consciously high (in terms of topics and complexity) level of publications. This does not mean that we divide people to "decent" and "unworthy", simply there is a lighter reading and more difficult, for those who are ready and want to read serious publications.

I do not think that the circulation of such a media may exceed 100 thousand, and the change in the format has never been planned. Still, we initially conceived a "foma" as a magazine for people educated and reading, and not only considering pictures.

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