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)

32.5—September/October 2019

Looking for Jacobs

Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy by Graeme Hunter

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)

29.3—May/June 2016

The Master's Voice

Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ by Anthony Esolen

22.3—April 2009

Wasted by Watching

Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by J. Daryl Charles

32.5—September/October 2019

Must Say No

on When Christians Can't Compromise by Joshua Steely

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

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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

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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

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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

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The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

18.2 — March 2005

The Power of Joan

17.10 — December 2004

Casualties of the Drug Lords

18.6 — Nov/Dec 2005

Religious War & Peace

(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

15.3 — April 2002

The Ring of Terror

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

17.3 — April 2004

The Lost Art of Mercy

6.1 — Winter 1993

Piety & Popularity

11.3 — May/June 1998

The Three-Hour Plan

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Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

12.2 — March/April 1999

A Novelist Looks at Faith & Fiction

An Interview with Susan Howatch

13.1 — January/February 2000

A Double Take on Early Christianity

An Interview with Rodney Stark

22.8 — November/December 2009

Remains of the Swedes

An Interview with Bishop Göran Beijer of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden

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book reviews

35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

A Tale Told by an Idiot
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare edited by Jan H. Blits
A review by R. V. Young

35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

Uppercut
Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.
edited with an introduction by George Weigel

A review by John M. Vella

35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

Points of Contact
The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church by Bradley Nassif
A review by Louis Markos

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Biblical Skepticism
The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture by Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker
A review by Thomas Banks

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