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Seth D. Mitchell on Foolish Faith in Technological Salvation
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Christian Freedom in the Contest with Secularism by Douglas Farrow
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33.4—July/August 2020
on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
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34.1—January/February 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma
20.7—September 2007
Paul Didn’t Build Bridges to Popular Culture by Russell D. Moore
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From Heavenly Harmony
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As It Is Written . . .
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
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19.2 — March 2006
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The Leading Edge
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(2001–2013)
25.2 — March/April 2012
18.6 — Nov/Dec 2005
21.2 — March 2008
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
25.3 — May/Jun 2012
25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson
22.6 — July/August 2009
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
17.7 — September 2004
15.8 — October 2002
15.3 — April 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
7.2 — Spring 1994
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14.6 — July/August 2001
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
25.3 — May/Jun 2012
Prison Fellowship Founder Charles Colson's Final Mission for Christian Faith & Culture
26.3 — May/June 2013
Jonathan V. Last on Faith, Hope & the Coming Population Implosion
book reviews
38.6 — Nov/Dec, 2025
The Sexual Reformation
A Forceful and Fruitful Verse: Genesis 1:28 in Luther’s Thought and Its Place in the Wittenberg Reformation (1521–1531) by Brandt C. Klawitter
A review by Allan C. Carlson
38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
Butler’s Lies
Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
A review by Alexander T. Riley
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
Divinely Detailed
All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart
A review by Charles Carman
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