Featured Touchstone article of the day: 08/15/2016
Love, Sex & Mammon: Hard Times, Hard Truths & the
Economics of the Christian Family by Russell D. Moore
Touchstone July / August 2016
Getting the Origins of Religious Liberty Right Matters • The Anti-Family War & Its Lies • Modern Science Has Rendered Atheism Irrational
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Two Tales of Freedom
Getting the Origins of Religious Liberty Right Matters
by Matthew J. Franck
Around the world, religious freedom is threatened. In some places the threat is immediate and deadly, as when the terrorists of the Islamic State murder Christian martyrs for an international audience, and openly avow their intention of wiping out ancient communities of Jews, Christians, Yazidis, and Muslims who do not conform to their views. In other places the threat seems trivial by comparison, since no physical violence is employed, yet quite real pressure is applied, as when Catholic Charities adoption services lose their state licenses because they will place children only with families headed by a married man and woman, or when the federal government threatens the Little Sisters of the Poor with crippling fines because they will not compromise their witness to the Church's teaching on contraception. . . . Continue ➡
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A History of Religious Freedom
by James Hitchcock
Prior to Constantine, coercion in matters of religion was of course unthinkable to Christians, who were themselves the chief victims of such coercion. But leading theologians—Origen, Cyprian, Lactantius—did not offer a merely prudential argument. They affirmed the spiritual nature of a faith that was false if it was not freely chosen. . . . Continue ➡
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Toleration & Divine Forbearance
by S. M. Hutchens
In regard to Matthew Franck's two origin stories, I find it surprising that on so consequential a matter as the toleration of false teaching (for that is what we are discussing with regard to religious liberty), the apostolic deposit has given so little guidance that the Church has come to learn its own true mind on the subject, "not without pain and struggle," through its experiences in contemplation on the meaning of the imago Dei; through patristic allusion to the necessity that faith not be coerced; through the biblical record wherein our fathers, though chained in prisons dark, were still in heart and conscience free; and through heroes who laid the foundation for our religious liberty by resisting compulsion. . . . Continue ➡
Editorial
Be Kind to Children
The Anti-Family War & Its Lies
by Allan Carlson
What could possibly go wrong?" asks the Ruth Institute's Jennifer Roback Morse in a new commentary on sperm donation and surrogacy run amok. She describes women who paid for sperm from a "donor" who apparently had the credentials of a future Nobel Prize winner. Upon investigation, though, he proved to be a college dropout with a criminal record and a self-reported schizoaffective disorder. As one buyer ruefully concluded, "A hitchhiker on the side of the road would have been a far more responsible option for conceiving a child." Such is the consequence, Morse says, of transforming a child's other parent into a commercial transaction. . . . Continue ➡
Book Review
The Business of Faith
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin Kruse
reviewed by Graeme Hunter
Just a guess, but I suppose most of us Touchstonians take a dim view of religion's decline in importance since the 1950s. Politically conservative Christians are indignant at being ungently evicted from what Richard John Neuhaus taught us to call the "public square." Social conservatives take alarm at the degree to which Christian standards of public and private behavior have ceased to be respected. Because many of us are both politically and socially conservative, we are more than participants in these changes. We are partisans. We normally prefer partisan accounts of our situation to versions from the side that calls itself "progressive." . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone May / June 2016
God's Word Uncut • Left-Right Populism versus American Elitism • In Praise of Wheaton's
Biblical Witness
Editorial
The Master's Voice
Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ
by Anthony Esolen
Thomas Jefferson, that freethinker with an odd and persistent strain of conservatism, fashioned his own New Testament by removing from it all of the accounts of Jesus' miracles. That was his piety at work, such as it was, as also when he attended services on his plantation, and the tears welled up in his eyes when he heard the old hymns he could no longer sing. For well over a hundred years, even Unitarians were "Christian" in this sense: they believed in the Fatherhood of God, and they believed that the moral teachings of Jesus Christ were the highest and noblest ever to be revealed to man. . . . Continue ➡
Commentary
Flailing Democracy
Left-Right Populism versus American Elitism
by James Hitchcock
The principal conservative argument against democracy is the claim that "the people"—ill-educated, vulnerable to mere emotion, susceptible to demagoguery—cannot be trusted. A well-governed state must depend on some kind of aristocracy to rise above such fatal weaknesses. The flaw in that classical argument was identified by Winston Churchill in his paradoxical comment that "democracy is the worst of all systems, except for the others.". . . Continue ➡
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Surgical Fantasy
On Biblical Compassion for Sex-Change Confusion
by Robert Hart
God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. (1 Cor. 14:33) The invention of a new "civil right" is being forced upon us. I believe that if the great martyr of genuine civil rights could see what is being done in the name of his cause, he would be displeased—that is, if the things he actually believed in his lifetime are taken into account. . . . Continue ➡
Communiqué
It's Not Your Hijab
It's the Theology: In Praise of Wheaton College's Stand
by J. Daryl Charles
It was an issue that would not easily go away, and only intensified last winter. Aside from murder and mayhem in our streets and, of course, global warming, what galvanized CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Time, NPR, USA Today, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Salon, and even news sources like Business Insider? Presidential primary madness? Gay "rights" and same-sex everything? Christian "homophobia" and conservative "hate crimes"? Gun control? Medicalizing marijuana? Perhaps pro-life "fanaticism"? Alas, it was none of these. What aroused the ire of all these outlets—as we've all surely heard by now—was the "scandal" (so Time) that engulfed the Evangelical college in suburban Chicago and leading member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), Wheaton College. . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone September / October 2015
Remembering Angka & the Idolatry of the Khmer Rouge 40 Years Later • The Dramatic Life, Faith & Films of Cecil B. DeMille • An Interview with Bishop Angaelos of the Coptic Orthodox Church
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Scandals, Sandals & Biblical Epics
The Dramatic Life, Faith & Films of Cecil B. DeMille
by Regis Nicoll
In case you haven't noticed, Tinseltown is turning out biblical films on a scale not seen since the 1950s. With the showings of Noah, Heaven Is for Real, Son of God, God's Not Dead, Left Behind, Exodus, and Mary, Mother of Christ, 2014 has been called the "year of the biblical movie." It is a genre and trend traceable to the cinematic influence of Cecil B. DeMille. . . . Continue ➡
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Who's Your Teacher?
On Our Sacred Duty to Teach the Devil to Death
by Marcus Johnson
Martin Luther's prescription for pastors and preachers (including himself) who neglect the catechetical training of their congregation was characteristically colorful and coarse: "we deserve not only to be given no food to eat, but also to have the dogs set upon us and to be pelted with horse manure." Pelted with equine feces after the hounds have been released? Even if his prescription is not to be taken literally—although all bets are off with the cantankerous Reformer—Luther's zeal for the catechetical instruction of the Church is unmistakable. . . . Continue ➡
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Cambodia's Anti-Exodus
Remembering Angka & the Idolatry of the Khmer Rouge 40 Years Later
by Les Sillars
This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Led by Pol Pot, this Communist regime murdered about 1.7 million people between 1975 and 1979 in a doomed attempt to turn Cambodia into a Marxist agrarian utopia. Applying the principles of Mao with the speed and violence of Stalin, the Khmer Rouge executed hundreds of thousands of citizens by cutting throats and crushing skulls with hoe-handles. Most of the rest died of starvation, overwork, and disease. . . . Continue ➡
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Philosopher-King
by Patrick Henry Reardon
From the first page of Holy Writ, the reader is left with no doubt about the nature of the world and humanity's place within it. Perhaps it is less obvious that a certain polemical concern is active in the mind of Moses: he is at some pains to declare that God is the Creator of all things, even those things which many non-Hebrews commonly regarded as gods.
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Touchstone July / August 2015
In Memoriam: Father Thomas Hopko • The Life of Richard John Neuhaus • On a Rabbi's Love for Mere Christianity
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Jewish Lewis Fans
On a Rabbi's Love for Mere Christianity
by Clara Sarrocco
Who is this Rabbi Schiller, who, while holding onto his Jewish faith, yet appreciates one of the most Christian of writers? Mayer Schiller was born in Brooklyn in 1951 and given the name Craig. His family, while ethnically Jewish, did not have a deep religious identity. But by the age of twelve Mayer felt a strong religious calling. He made the decision to accept Orthodox Judaism and eventually became a member of the Hasidic community. . . .Continue ➡
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The Genuine Preacher
What All Clergy Can Learn from Billy Graham
by Robert Hart
Many "televangelists" have a bad name, and many of them have well deserved it. Some are brought down by scandals, while others have no scandals attached to them but come across as clowns, entertainers, or hustlers for money (seeming only to rob churches of the rightful pledges of their members). Still others are trendy, or just plain weird. In contrast to all these types stands Billy Graham, . . . Continue ➡
Editorial
Majority Report
The Future of Marriage & the Natural Family
by Allan Carlson
Late in June, the United States Supreme Court will issue its ruling on the Constitutional status of same-sex marriage. Despite some promising hints of second-guessing by a justice or two during their April hearing on this question, the majority of seasoned court observers still expect a ruling saying that the penumbra of the Constitution mandates same-sex marriage. A hopeful minority look for a deference to at least some of the states. . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone May / June 2015
Describing Human Ends & Our Limitations Is Neither Futile Nor Unloving • Whittaker Chambers's Lonely War Against Godless Collectivism • The End of Comfortable Christianity
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No Country for Young Children
What Kind of Society Can Countenance Such Evil?
by Anthony Esolen
Let us begin with a question that seems never to occur to the proponents of abortion. What must a country become, or already have become, if abortion is permitted? Here I don't mean simply that there is evil in the world, and that when you perform an evil deed you yourself are your first and most injured victim. That principle would apply in a healthy society as well as in a sick one. . . . Continue ➡
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Of Bicycles, Sex, & Natural Law
Describing Human Ends & Our Limitations Is Neither Futile Nor Unloving
by R. V. Young
Imagine that it is your birthday and you have just unexpectedly received a large pasteboard carton. You open it and find two large metal wheels with wire spokes rimmed by narrow rubber tubes, a tubular metal frame with a chain and two rotating rectangular appendages, . . . Continue ➡
Editorial
Ashamed
of the Gospel?
The End of Comfortable Christianity
by Robert P. George
The days of socially acceptable Christianity in the West are surely over. The days of comfortable Christian orthodoxy are past. It is no longer easy to be a faithful Christian, . . . Continue ➡
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The Spy Who Turned Witness
Whittaker Chambers's Lonely War Against Godless Collectivism
by Hunter Baker
Cultural elites in Hollywood and the media have worked hard to preserve memories of abuses committed by anti-Communists during the Cold War. Many films portray the blacklisting of Hollywood Communists . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone March / April 2015
Echoes of Samaria: Finding Jesus & Neighbors in the Holy Land • Neo-Pagan Family Policies Doom Any Recovery • The Icon of Materialism
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Prognosis Pending
An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America by Joseph Bottum
reviewed by John C. Chalberg
A more accurate subtitle for this book might have been "The Post-Protestant Ethic and a Dis-spirited America." After all, the thrust of Joseph Bottum's story of our "anxious age" is the "catastrophic" collapse of an American Protestantism that did so much over the course of the nineteenth century to buttress the American experiment—and the American spirit. Not so in the twentieth century, . . . Continue ➡
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As Goes Sweden
Neo-Pagan Family Policies Doom Any Recovery
by Allan Carlson
My people come from the old Swedish province of Småland. It lies to the southwest of Stockholm: a landscape of hills, forests, and rocks. Indeed, the fields are so rocky that Småland has been called the "kingdom of stones." In some respects, Småland resembles the highlands of the American South . . . Continue ➡
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The Icon of Materialism
Why Scientism's Cherished Progress Narrative Fails
by Jonathan Witt
Contemporary academic culture is sick with a dogma masquerading as dispassionate scientific inquiry, a dogma called scientism. . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone January / February 2015
Five Reasons Why Freedom of Religion & Conscience Is in Peril • State Impositions & Church Acquiescence • The Unevangelized May Be Better & Worse than Savages
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Roman Renewal
Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church by George Weigel
reviewed by Leon J. Podles
George Weigel is not a Catholic restorationist who desires a return to some imaginary ideal period. He tries to go beyond the dichotomy of "traditionalism" and "progressivism" to discern how the Holy Spirit is giving a new form to the Catholic Church. He sees the beginning of the end of the Counter-Reformation form of Catholicism in the work of Pope Leo XIII, . . . Continue ➡
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Mission Nary Impossible
The Unevangelized May Be Better
& Worse than Savages
by Anthony Esolen
Man is an ineluctably moral being. He can pretend to moral relativism, but he cannot live it. He can say, misunderstanding Jesus' words, that we must never judge another person's actions, but in the blink of an eye he will assume that judgment seat, nor must he be a hypocrite to do so. . . . Continue ➡
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Gay Christians?
The Grave Danger Coming Out Poses to Christian Churches
by Brian Patrick Mitchell
Conflict makes people uncomfortable, so in mixed company, people watch what they say. Instead of speaking their minds on controversial issues, they trim their opinions to fit those around them—sometimes out of charity, sometimes out of prudence, but often out of cowardice. . . . Continue ➡
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Altered Matrimony
on State Impositions & Church Acquiescence
by Stephen Baskerville
It is clear to everyone now that Christians are losing the battle for marriage and with it the entire sexual revolution. Not only will same-sex marriage become the law of the land throughout the West, but measures mandating "equality," prohibiting "discrimination," and controlling religious expression will be further expanded and tightened, and institutions like the military will become not only secularized but increasingly sexualized and feminized. . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone November / December 2013
The Great Epics Are Theological & Mark the Hard Path to Beatitude • The Ministry of an Orthodox Army Chaplain in Southwest Asia Post-9/11 • The Cutting Edge of God's "Peace on Earth"
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A Divine Gift of the Muses
The Great Epics Are Theological & Mark the Hard Path to Beatitude
by Anthony Esolen
Some years ago I got into a rather tense conversation with a couple of students in the office of the English department. We were talking about The Lord of the Rings, and I remarked that nothing like it could be written now, because our culture—for want of a better word, I must use the word "culture" to describe our mass habits, after the reality of culture has withered away—no longer possesses a vision of the world and of man that would sustain such a work. . . . Continue ➡
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Grace & Truce
On the Cutting Edge of God's "Peace on Earth"
by David C. Brenner
Many have heard the message of the angels to the shepherds at Jesus' birth, even apart from church services, thanks to the greeting-card industry and the Charlie Brown Christmas Special. But "peace on earth, goodwill toward men," sufficiently inoffensive to be a perfect holiday greeting in postmodern America, is also misunderstood. . . . Continue ➡
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Have Icon, Will Travel
The Ministry of an Orthodox Army Chaplain in Southwest Asia Post-9/11
by Alexander F. C. Webster
At 11:20 p.m. on April 3, 2010, a loud explosion broke the night silence around the main chapel on Bagram Air Field (BAF) in Afghanistan. I was putting on my vestments in preparation for the midnight Paschal services. A few of the attendees rushed outside the wooden building to see what was happening. Then, two minutes later, a second shell landed so close that it rocked the chapel as if an earthquake had hit us. . . . Continue ➡
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The Burt Carols
On the Musical Gifts of a Jazz Musician's Christmas Cards
by Michael Baum
Popular Christmas carols are overwhelmingly secular and commercial. On ASCAP's list of the 25 most-recorded Christmas songs, only one, "The Little Drummer Boy," refers even obliquely to the birth of Jesus, as opposed to Santa, snow, snowmen, reindeer, chestnuts, and of course, Christmas presents. But one corpus of contemporary Christmas songs counters that trend: the Alfred Burt carols. . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone September / October 2013
Reflections on the Sabbath in Time & Eternity • On the Holy Wisdom at the Roots of Philosophy • The Perils of Pragmatism in Christian Attitudes Toward the Liberal Arts
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American Idolatry
Meditations on Same-Sex Marriage
by Allan Carlson
In his 1835 book Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that for Americans, "equality is their idol." Among such a democratic people, he reports, "there are certain epochs at which the passion they entertain for it swells to the height of fury." They prefer equality in freedom, he noted, but if "they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery." Even barbarism, servitude, and poverty are acceptable offerings to "this irresistible passion." . . . Continue ➡
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Hagia Sophia
On the Holy Wisdom at the Roots of Philosophy
by Donald T. Williams
Philosophy: phileo plus sophia, the love of wisdom. Wisdom: not intelligence (which is just processing speed) or knowledge (which is just information) or even understanding (which is seeing how one's bits of knowledge relate to one another), but something more. Wisdom is the knack of using one's intelligence, knowledge, and understanding in useful and beneficial ways. For Christians, it means using one's intelligence, knowledge, and understanding in ways that glorify God, advance his kingdom, and bring blessing to his people. . . . Continue ➡
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The Augustinian Luther
A Pilgrimage in Search of the Reformer's Spiritual Director
by William R. Hampton
Fifty years ago, in a pastoral theology class, my instructor said that conversion involves God working through personal relationships—in a conversion experience there is another human person involved. I was intrigued and asked who that person was in the case of Martin Luther. He responded immediately, "Johannes von Staupitz." . . . Continue ➡
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The Rest of Creation
Reflections on the Sabbath in Time & Eternity
by Stanley E. Anderson
In Dirty Harry, detective Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) apprehends a criminal and begins his famous monologue, "I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six bullets or only five?" If Harry had instead been a pastor confronting one of his parishioners caught doing unnecessary work on Sunday, he might have begun, "I know what you're thinking. Did God create the heavens and the earth in seven days or only six?" . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone July / August 2013
Hilton Kramer's Life of Cultural Discernment • A Christian Reflection on the Attractions & Shortcomings of Buddhism • An Ancient Greek Drama Awakened a Powerful New Longing in Its Audiences
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Kramer's Criteria
Hilton Kramer's Life of Cultural Discernment Meant Speaking Truth to Art
by Bradley W. Anderson
When the Russian writer and dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at long last decided to allow his reclusive privacy in Vermont to be invaded by the New York Times for a 1980 interview, he did so under one condition: he would speak only to one man at the Times: Hilton Kramer, their chief art critic. . . .Continue ➡
Editorial
Just Christians
On Homosexuality & Christian Identity
by S. M. Hutchens
In homosexuality's assault on the beliefs of churches that once unanimously identified it as sexual perversion—sodomy being "the abominable and detestable crime against nature"—its most potent weapon has been the counter-accusation that identification of homosexuality as sinful is a detestable offense against charity. By these presents, all who hold to the ancient interdict as God's word may be numbered among the crowing yahoos of Westboro Baptist Church with its "God Hates Fags" placards. . . . Continue ➡
Book Review
God's Child
The Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz
reviewed by Hunter Baker
His name is Odd. Not Todd. Odd. When you look into the origins of his name, they aren't clear. Maybe it was some strange kind of family name. Perhaps it was a mistake on the birth certificate. The young man's parents aren't sure themselves. It is as if the Lord wanted to express the metaphysical truth of this exceptional individual and so arranged to have him legally proclaimed Odd. . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone May / June 2013
On the Un-humanitarian Charity of Martin de Porres • The Legacy of the Mission of Cyril & Methodius 1,150 Years Later • Testing John Loftus's "Outsider Test for Faith" Shows Why There Are Billions of Christians Today
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A Fierce Holiness
The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor by Jonathan Rogers
reviewed by Ralph C. Wood
In 1922 G. K. Chesterton famously described the United States as "a nation with the soul of a church." Unlike virtually all European countries of his time, America had no established state church. Yet it was still founded on a creed . . . Continue ➡
Editorial
Hard to Swallow
Public Health, Government Obesity & Church Resistance
by Patrick Henry Reardon
Visiting another city some months ago, I found myself having breakfast in a B&B with a group of folks completely unknown to me. . . . Continue ➡
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Blessed Assistance
On the Un-humanitarian Charity of Martin de Porres
by Anthony Esolen
Brother Martin," writes the biographer of St. Martin de Porres, a Peruvian mulatto who lived during the seventeenth century, shortly after the conquistadores had done their ruthless and efficient work, "was no philanthropist, no humanitarian." . . . Continue ➡
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Into All the World
Testing John Loftus's "Outsider Test for Faith" Shows Why There Are Billions of Christians Today
by David Marshall
As author of one of the first books rebutting the New Atheism, I've spent considerable time over the past several years in dialogue with atheists, including such quasi-luminaries as Hector Avalos, Richard Carrier, Jerry Coyne, PZ Myers, and Victor Stenger. Aside from atheists who also happen to be philosophers—who in my experience tend to argue more effectively—many seem to regard reason much as the young Augustine of Hippo saw chastity: "Lord, make me logical, but not just yet." . . . Continue ➡
Book Review
Readers & Believers
Inklings of Reality: Essays Toward a Christian Philosophy of Letters
by Donald T. Williams
reviewed by Louis Markos
Donald Williams does not mince words. After reminding us that every culture "has had a mode of speech that is more rhythmical, more formal, more suggestive, more intense . . . than the normal ones it uses for everyday discourse," . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone March / April 2013
Believers Are No Longer Credible as Public Citizens • On Clarity, Mystery & Their Demands on Preachers & Hearers • Whittaker Chambers, Potemkin Villages & the Ongoing War
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All This in Remembrance
The History & Revelation of Anamnesis in Platonic, Jewish & Christian Thought
by Folke T. Olofsson
Both Luke and Paul use anamnesis ("in remembrance") in their accounts of the Last Supper. The English translation does not do this rich word justice. The ancient Greeks were quite familiar with and used this word. . . .
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Editorial
The New Heretics
Believers Are No Longer Credible as Public Citizens
by James Hitchcock
The most astonishing fact about contemporary American politics—that there is not a single Protestant on the Supreme Court, while there are six Catholics—goes largely unremarked, even though on the surface it seems to fulfill the most dire predictions made at the time of John F. Kennedy's ascendancy in 1960. On the other side, the fact that no Catholic since Kennedy has occupied the White House also attracts little notice. . . .Continue ➡
Book Review
Imperial Science
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism by Alvin Plantinga
reviewed by Louis Markos
Increasingly over the last two decades, Christians have made great strides in taking back science from those who would misuse it as a tool for fostering a naturalistic view of the universe that renders God either non-existent or irrelevant to life on planet earth. . . . Continue ➡
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Hard to Reach
On Clarity, Mystery & Their Demands on Preachers & Hearers
by S. M. Hutchens
Always put the cookies on the lowest shelf," said the seminary professor. He meant that all preaching and teaching should be suited to the meanest understanding, that everyone in a general audience should be able to comprehend fully what one is saying in the exposition of Scripture and explication of the Christian faith . . . Continue ➡
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Touchstone January / February 2013
Manly Chastity, Hedonism & the Law of Non-contradiction • The Alternate & Alternative Worlds of H. P. Lovecraft & C. S. Lewis • On Abortion as a Matter of National Welfare
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Scarborough Needs Men
Manly Chastity, Hedonism & the Law of Non-contradiction
by Anthony Esolen
Scarborough, Ontario, is a sprawling urban growth on the side of Toronto. A large group of people, including children, are attending a block party, when a car driving past sprays them with bullets. Two people are killed and another 23 are injured. One of the slain, the target of the attack, . . . Continue ➡
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Lost & Found In the Cosmos
The Alternate & Alternative Worlds of H. P. Lovecraft & C. S. Lewis
by C. R. Wiley
Recently some astronomers discovered two earth-sized planets orbiting Kepler-20, a star roughly 1,000 light years away. Congratulations to them; their detective work was nearly as awe-inspiring as the news. A flurry of articles followed the find, speculating on the nature of these worlds, . . . Continue ➡
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The Destroyer of Peace
On Abortion as a Matter of National Welfare
by W. Ross Blackburn
Every election addresses issues crucial to the life of the nation. Typical of years past, the economy, national security, and health care commanded the attention of voters in 2012, and the candidates were expected to propose solutions for each issue. Yet, our economy is not going to be saved simply by changing our tax policy or spending habits, . . . Continue ➡
Book Review
Shared Treasure
Luke by David Lyle Jeffrey
reviewed by Graeme Hunter
The distinguished Brazos Theological Series, to which David Lyle Jeffrey's commentary on Luke makes a shining contribution, rests on three daring assumptions. First, it assumes a stance that is ecumenical in the bold sense of the word, encouraging "unashamedly dogmatic" interpretations of Scripture by commentators with clear commitments to Orthodox, Catholic, or Reformed traditions. . . . Continue ➡
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