september/october

Young Folly & Elder Hope

37:5 — sept/oct 2024

Young Folly & Elder Hope

A Battle Plan for Peace While Growing Old
by Anthony Esolen

Heresy of Isolation

37:5 — sept/oct 2024

AI: A Theological Response

Misgivings of a Recovering Technologist
by Bernard Peter Robichau

How Law Lost Its Way

37:5 — sept/oct 2024

How Law Lost Its Way

An Abandoned Ruling Principle & How to Get It Back
by Adam J. MacLeod

Young Folly & Elder Hope

37:5 — sept/oct 2024

Great & Wonderful Days

The Death of Conservatism & the Negative World
by J. Douglas Johnson

We Dare Not Despair

37:5 — sept/oct 2024

We Dare Not Despair

Clinton Collister on Repenting from the Vice of Declinism

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 (108 articles)

30.1—Jan/Feb 2017

Family Matters

Domestic Altars & Godly Offspring by Allan C. Carlson

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

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Cool of the Evening

37.3 — May/June 2024

Praying for Gratitude

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From Heavenly Harmony

by Ken Myers

on classical music

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Apprehending the Music of Being

37.4 — Jul/Aug 2024

A Calm Without a Storm

37.3 — May/June 2024

The Liedermeister & the Church

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A Thousand Words

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

on works of Christian art

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First Books

by Kathie Johnson

on books for children

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

37.3 — May/June 2024

More on the Far East

37.1 — Jan/Feb 2024

Far Eastern Lands

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Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Insidious Winsomeness

37.4 — Jul/Aug 2024

Seeing the Remnant

37.3 — May/June 2024

Fr. Robinson & Mere Anglicanism

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As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Scriptures’ Greek Nuance

37.4 — Jul/Aug 2024

The Library Left Behind

37.3 — May/June 2024

The Audacious Tamar

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past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

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

18.7 — September 2005

Harvey Cox's The Secular City

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The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

22.8 — November/December 2009

Content with Truth

17.6 — July/August 2004

Taking the Cake

21.2 — March 2008

Science by Consensus

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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

15.7 — September 2002

Disaster Canada

18.1 — January/February 2005

Empty Spaces of the Word

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Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

17.3 — April 2004

The Lost Art of Mercy

7.1 — Winter 1994

A Different Mind

10.3 — Summer 1997

Worthy of the Name

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

25.3 — May/Jun 2012

The Centurion

Prison Fellowship Founder Charles Colson's Final Mission for Christian Faith & Culture

14.1 — January/February 2001

Woman on A Mission

Elisabeth Elliot on Missions, Youth, Men & Women

15.6 — July/August 2002

Out on a Limb in Norway

An Interview with Norwegian Dissident Roald Flemestad

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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

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Biblical Skepticism
The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture by Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker
A review by Thomas Banks

35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022

Papist Patriots
Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America by Michael D. Breidenbach
A review by Thomas W. Jodziewicz

35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

What Is Memory For?
Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War by Joseph T. Stuart
A review by James E. Person, Jr.

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