september / october

Beyond Belief

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Beyond Belief

Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity by Gary Saul Morson

 Compelling Art

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Compelling Art

In Search of the Baptism of the Imagination by Wilfred M. McClay

Very Religious

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

“Very Religious”

How to Regard a New Term of Belittlement by J. Douglas Johnson

Adagio for Joseph

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Adagio for Joseph

Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man

Contradictory Man

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Contradictory Man

The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos

conference videos (see all)

America After Christianity

September 27, 2024

Neopaganism's Dark Enchantment

—John Daniel Davidson

September 28, 2024

The Urgency of Wonder

—Rod Dreher

September 26, 2024

Principles for Living in the Negative World

—Aaron Renn

from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)

21.6—July/August 2008

The European Disunion

Benedict XVI on the Crisis of Faith & Reason by Samuel Gregg

32.3—May/June 2019

Theodicies & Messy Desks

on the Infinite Problem of Goods & Evil by Hugh Hunter

from the archives on culture (292 articles)

33.1—January/February 2020

Do You Know Your Child’s Doctor?

The Politicization of Pediatrics in America by Alexander F. C. Webster

6.1—Winter 1993

Civilization Without Religion?

by Russell Kirk

34.1—January/February 2021

Jeremiah Revisited

Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Hymns of Creation

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Forgotten Mode

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

A Threefold Cord

(See all)

From Heavenly Harmony

by Ken Myers

on classical music

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Restless Beauty

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Apprehending the Music of Being

(See all)

A Thousand Words

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

on works of Christian art

(See all)

First Books

by Kathie Johnson

on books for children

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Reading About the Holocaust

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

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Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Vanity & the Work of the Cobbler

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Three Tests

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

(See all)

As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

A Persian Parody

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

Second Thoughts on Saul

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

All Their Cosmos

(See all)

past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)

18.7 — September 2005

Harvey Cox's The Secular City

18.8 — October 2005

Jack Kerouac's On the Road

(See all)

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

14.6 — July/August 2001

History & Strange Reversals

21.6 — July/August 2008

Harboring Homeschoolers

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

16.1 — January/February 2003

Man Is a Wolf to Man

16.5 — June 2003

Naples & New Towns

15.4 — May 2002

Flying High at Trinity

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

6.3 — Summer 1993

Christian Community

11.6 — November/December 1998

Rediscovering Advent

13.8 — October 2000

The Sin of Self-Esteem

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

A Faithful Knowledge

A Conversation with Stephen C. Meyer

3.3 — Fall 1989

Hope in Haiti?

An Interview with Jean Bertrand Aristide

14.1 — January/February 2001

Woman on A Mission

Elisabeth Elliot on Missions, Youth, Men & Women

(See all)

book reviews

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Crucial Witness
Glory Wrapped in Shame: An Exegetical Study of the Passion Narrative in the Gospel of St. John, Highlighting Its Historical and Theological Insights by Abraham Oommen
A review by John G. Panagiotou

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

The Living Bible
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew by Hans Boersma
A review by Thomas Banks

35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

The Last Cavalier Poet
Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose edited by Robert Asch
A review by André Gushurst-Moore

35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

Total Immersion
Baptism: A Guide to Life from Death by Peter J. Leithart
A review by Joshua Pauling

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