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“. . . The terrible fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell. . . .”
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (1971)
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Timely Search for a Christian Response to Nazism by Joseph L. Thomas
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11.5—September/October 1998
Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp
An Essay on Myth &“Real Life” by Stratford Caldecott
18.4—May 2005
The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
from the archives on family (81 articles)
24.4—July/August 2011
The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family by Patrick F. Fagan
31.1—January/February 2018
The Wisdom of the Victorian Quest for Innocence by David Sandifer
33.2—March/April 2020
Encounters with Faith & Forgiveness in Communities of Faith by Nicole M. King
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From Heavenly Harmony
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33.6 — November/December 2020
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34.2 — March/April 2021
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Mortal Remains
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As It Is Written . . .
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19.3 — April 2006
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
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25.4 — July/August 2012
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23.3 — May/June 2010
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.6 — July/August 2002
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16.3 — April 2003
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
8.2 — Spring 1995
10.2 — Spring 1997
17.4 — May 2004
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
14.4 — May 2001
Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia
14.6 — July/August 2001
An Interview with Bob Davies of Exodus International
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32.2 — March/April, 2019
Wake-Up Call
The Apocalypse: Warning, Hope & Consolation
by Michael D. O'Brien
A review by Jeffrey Wald
32.4 — July/August, 2019
Then They Will Come for Us
Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemöller, The Pastor Who Defied the Nazis by Matthew D. Hockenos
A review by J. Daryl Charles
32.6 — November/December, 2019
Strategic Christians
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
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A review by Jesse Russell
32.4 — July/August, 2019
Novel Conversion
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
by Cynthia L. Haven
A review by David K. Anderson
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