march/april

A Creed Awakening

38:2 — mar/apr 2025

A Creed Awakening

On the 1,700th Anniversary of Nicaea
by Patrick Henry Reardon

The Question of Human Identity

38:2 — mar/apr 2025

The Question of Human Identity

The Full Christian Answer to Modernity’s Crisis
by George Hobson

The King & the Lamb

38:2 — mar/apr 2025

The King & the Lamb

The Whole Biblical Story in Handel’s Messiah, Oftentimes Missed
by Calvin Stapert

Science Disrobed

38:2 — mar/apr 2025

Science Disrobed

The Misuse of Scientific “Authority” for Utopian Ends
by Thomas S. Buchanan

Panopticon Control

38:2 — mar/apr 2025

Panopticon Control

Hans Boersma on Our Creaturely Rejection of a Theophanizing God

conference videos (see all)

Chris Wiley at the Touchstone Conference

October 12, 2018

Make Men Pious Again

—C. R. Wiley

October 14, 2022

The Politics of Nothingness

—Michael Hanby

from the archives on imagination (40 articles)

19.10—December 2006

Enchanting Children

Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination by David Mills

11.5—September/October 1998

Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp

An Essay on Myth & 'Real Life' by Stratford Caldecott

from the archives on family (114 articles)

36.1—Jan/Feb 2023

Contraceptive Cons

A History of the Protestant Debate over Contraception by James A. Altena

32.1—January/February 2019

The Life of Sean

on Down Syndrome & the Lives That Matter by David F. Watson

34.1—January/February 2021

Whose Wife Shall She Be?

Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage by James Ware

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

A Sign of Contradiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

To the Heart of Specificity

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From Heavenly Harmony

by Ken Myers

on classical music

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Restless Beauty

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Apprehending the Music of Being

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A Thousand Words

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

on works of Christian art

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

The Cathedral of Monreale

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First Books

by Kathie Johnson

on books for children

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

37.3 — May/June 2024

More on the Far East

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Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

The Best of the Good

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Language Notes

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Out of the Depth

(See all)

As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

Thinking on Hannah

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Artisans of the Spirit

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Family Man

(See all)

past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)

(See all)

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

14.6 — July/August 2001

History & Strange Reversals

17.8 — October 2004

Overestimating AIDS

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

16.1 — January/February 2003

Man Is a Wolf to Man

16.5 — June 2003

Naples & New Towns

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

14.5 — June 2001

On Shamefulness

17.4 — May 2004

Nothing Is Sinful

17.2 — March 2004

Breaking Teeth

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

26.3 — May/June 2013

Whispers of Doom

Jonathan V. Last on Faith, Hope & the Coming Population Implosion

8.3 — Summer 1995

Turning Hearts to the Fathers Part I

A Conversation With Thomas C. Oden

8.4 — Fall 1995

Turning Hearts to the Fathers Part II

A Conversation With Thomas C. Oden

(See all)

book reviews

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Crucial Witness
Glory Wrapped in Shame: An Exegetical Study of the Passion Narrative in the Gospel of St. John, Highlighting Its Historical and Theological Insights by Abraham Oommen
A review by John G. Panagiotou

35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

Uppercut
Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.
edited with an introduction by George Weigel

A review by John M. Vella

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

The Living Bible
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew by Hans Boersma
A review by Thomas Banks

35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

The Last Cavalier Poet
Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose edited by Robert Asch
A review by André Gushurst-Moore

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