The website for the Russian Orthodox magazine Foma (Russian for “Thomas”), is one of the most popular websites on religion in Russia today (foma.ru). Billing itself as a “magazine for doubters,” Foma’s content is designed to develop an audience of educated professionals who may not be active Church members, but who are interested in the country’s history and cultural patrimony. In this article, I focus on how the site’s content related to Russian literature and the literary canon helps to build an online discourse that reaches these professionals and advances the Church’s thinking and teaching on a variety of social issues. I argue that Foma’s reassessment of the literary canon and dismantling of Soviet narratives about literature plays a critical role in cultivating a community of educated people and projecting a vision of a new intellectual elite for Russia.