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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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on Past & Present Atheism & the Invention of Happiness by Jordan Bissell
from the archives on culture (292 articles)
34.1—January/February 2021
What the World Needs Now It Hardly Knows by Anthony Esolen
20.7—September 2007
Paul Didn’t Build Bridges to Popular Culture by Russell D. Moore
19.4—May 2006
The Culture War Is Between Religious Believers on Both Sides by Howard P. Kainz
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
38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025
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past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
22.3 — April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
19.9 — November 2006
19.2 — March 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
17.6 — July/August 2004
25.4 — July/August 2012
21.6 — July/August 2008
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson
27.1 — Jan/Feb 2014
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.3 — April 2002
16.2 — March 2003
18.1 — January/February 2005
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
15.1 — January/February 2002
9.2 — Spring 1996
11.5 — September/October 1998
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
14.6 — July/August 2001
An Interview with Bob Davies of Exodus International
book reviews
38.4 — Jul/Aug, 2025
Art & Human Ends
Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts by Daniel McInerny
A review by Louise McCray
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
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Butler’s Lies
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
A review by Alexander T. Riley
38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
Latter-Day Paper Trail
Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet by John G. Turner
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