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38:5 — sept/oct 2025
Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity by Gary Saul Morson
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In Search of the Baptism of the Imagination by Wilfred M. McClay
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How to Regard a New Term of Belittlement by J. Douglas Johnson
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Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man
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The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos
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Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy by Graeme Hunter
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On Conservatism as Vexation, Vanity & Near Impossibility by Graeme Hunter
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Historical Truth, Beguiling Stories & Three Kinds of Hearers by Anthony Esolen
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From Heavenly Harmony
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The Leading Edge
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20.4 — May 2007
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012
Oliver O'Donovan's Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics
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27.2 — March/April 2014
Calvin Stapert's A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
The Matter at Hand
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Practical Christianity
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Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
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An Interview with Bishop Göran Beijer of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden
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Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia
book reviews
35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022
Progressively Stoic
Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition by Lisa Hill and Eden Blazejak
A review by Max Longley
35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
The Last Cavalier Poet
Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose edited by Robert Asch
A review by André Gushurst-Moore
35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022
Capturing Audiences
C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication by Steven Beebe
A review by Arthur W. Hunt III
35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022
A Retrieval
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