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Progress & the Pursuit of Unhappiness by J. Douglas Johnson
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The Minstrel of Millennial Narcissism
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What the World Needs Now It Hardly Knows by Anthony Esolen
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The Transmission of Christianity Is Not a New Task by Nathanael Devlin
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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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(2001–2013)
25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012
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Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
23.6 — November/December 2010
22.8 — November/December 2009
Todd Gitlin's Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives
23.4 — July/August 2010
Nathan O. Hatch's The Democratization of American Christianity
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.7 — September 2002
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
11.2 — March/April 1998
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Interviews
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Recovering the Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures
An Interview with Fr. Paul Quay, S.J.
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
38.2 — Mar/Apr, 2025
Closing Argument
What Is Christianity? The Last Writings of Benedict XVI
A review by John R. Stephenson
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
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38.1 — Jan/Feb, 2025
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Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
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