Touchstone Archives: May/June, 2016

29.3—May/June 2016

editorials

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

For the Hill-Dwellers
Christians, Imperialism & the Rule of Law
by S. M. Hutchens

Left-Right Populism versus American Elitism
by Hailing Deliverance
A Last Trump Before an Apocalypse?
by S. M. Hutchens

columns

Mortal Remains
The Gospel Rules
by S. M. Hutchens

From Heavenly Harmony
Lyrical Shapes of Fatherly Love
by Ken Myers

Communiqué

It's Not Your Hijab

by J. Daryl Charles

Illuminations
Loosened Tongues Employed
by Anthony Esolen

A Thousand Words
Hubert and Jan van Eyck's
The Ghent Altarpiece
by Mary Elizabeth Podles

As It Is Written...
The Light in the Darkness
by Patrick Henry Reardon

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features

Health of the Nation
A Deathbed Reflection on Catholic Social Teaching & Our Future Prospects
by Karl D. Stephan

Love Is Love
But Sex Is Sex, the Essential Foundation of Authentic Marriage
by Tyler Blanski

views

Table Graces
Gary A. Fritz on the Blessings of Serving Communion to the Saints

Printing Error
Donald T. Williams on Anscombe's Final Word on Lewis & Naturalism

Emotion Sickness
C. R. Wiley on the Big Thing That Pixar's Inside Out Left Out

Surgical Fantasy

Robert Hart on Biblical Compassion for Sex-Change Confusion

book reviews

From a Far Country
A Change of Heart: A Personal and Theological Memoir
by Thomas C. Oden
A review by S. M. Hutchens

Enemies on the Left
Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage
by Paul Kengor
A review by Richard Weikart

Merely Sexist?
Women and C. S. Lewis: What His Life and Literature Reveal for Today's Culture
by Carolyn Curtis and Mary Pomroy Key
A review by S. M. Huthcens

Eastern Union
The Orthodox Dilemma: Personal Reflections on Global Pan-Orthodox Christian Conciliar Unity
by George Alexander
A review by John G. Panagiotou

Book Trailers
Life Under Compulsion; From A to Z to Narnia with C. S. Lewis; and Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
A review by Nathan Arends,
James Menzies
& David E. Prince

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A Requiem for Friendship: Why Boys Will Not Be Boys & Other Consequences of the Sexual Revolution by Anthony Esolen

A Sin Which Can Be Forgiven: Toward a Biblical Perspective on Divorce and Remarriage in the Churches Today by Peter Toon

Calculating Christmas: The Story Behind December 25 by William J. Tighe

Faith Against Faith: Whittaker Chambers, Potemkin Villages & the Ongoing War by Anthony Esolen

The Natural Laws of Sex: What We Lose When We Forget What Sex Is For by J. Budziszewski

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