november / december
38:6 — nov/dec 2025
The Choice Between Contemplation & Control of Nature by Nicholas E. Ziegenhagen
38:6 — nov/dec 2025
St. Antony’s Guide to Resisting the Transhumanist Temptation by C. R. Wiley
38:6 — nov/dec 2025
Reclaiming the Normal Path to Mature Adulthood by Anthony Esolen
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from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)
25.6—Nov/Dec 2012
The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft
32.5—September/October 2019
Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy by Graeme Hunter
from the archives on culture (292 articles)
31.6—November/December 2018
Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source by Michael P. Foley
29.3—May/June 2016
Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ by Anthony Esolen
30.6—Nov/Dec 2017
Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity by Anthony Esolen
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024
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on works of Christian art
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38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025
on books for children
38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025
38.3 — May/Jun 2025
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As It Is Written . . .
on the bible and theology
38.6 — Nov/Dec 2025
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past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
18.9 — November 2005
19.9 — November 2006
38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
22.4 — May 2009
20.8 — October 2007
16.1 — January/February 2003
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
25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson
23.3 — May/June 2010
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
16.1 — January/February 2003
15.6 — July/August 2002
15.8 — October 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
14.7 — September 2001
10.2 — Spring 1997
9.4 — Fall 1996
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
26.3 — May/June 2013
Jonathan V. Last on Faith, Hope & the Coming Population Implosion
13.6 — July/August 2000
Life as an Orthodox Churchman in the Church of Sweden: An interview with Dag Sandahl
book reviews
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Divinely Detailed
All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart
A review by Charles Carman
38.5 — Sept/Oct, 2025
The Scope of the Pope
Infallibility, Integrity and Obedience: The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church, 1848–2023 by John M. Rist
A review by William J. Tighe
38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
The Sexual Reformation
A Forceful and Fruitful Verse: Genesis 1:28 in Luther’s Thought and Its Place in the Wittenberg Reformation (1521–1531) by Brandt C. Klawitter
A review by Allan C. Carlson
38.3 — May/Jun, 2025
Down But Not Out
Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream by Timothy S. Goeglein
A review by Allan C. Carlson
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