Touchstone Archives: May/June, 2015

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editorials

The End of Comfortable Christianity
by Robert P. George

columns

Mortal Remains
But Is It Interesting?
by S. M. Hutchens

From Heavenly Harmony
Mendelssohn, Memory & Melody
by Ken Myers

Communiqué
Transfigure or Die Trying
by Alexander F. C. Webster

Illuminations
Muddled Hymns
by Anthony Esolen

A Thousand Words
Portico de la Gloria by Master Mateo
by Mary Elizabeth Podles

As It Is Written...
Lord of Heaven & Earth
by Patrick Henry Reardon

28.3—May/June 2015

features

No Country for Young Children
What Kind of Society Can Countenance Such Evil?
by Anthony Esolen

The Spy Who Turned Witness

Whittaker Chambers's Lonely War Against Godless Collectivism
by Hunter Baker

Of Bicycles, Sex, & Natural Law

Describing Human Ends & Our Limitations Is Neither Futile Nor Unloving
by R. V. Young

views

Deep Convictions

Robert Hart on the Formation of Conscience for Good or Ill

Spirited Hearts
Stephen Muse on Why Men Without Chests Are Not Free & Do Not Love

Dumb Sheep

James S. Spiegel on the Truth About a Slanderous Accusation

Beyond Words
David Warren on Giving & Getting Attention in the Religious Classroom

book reviews

The Other Americas
The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity by Todd Hartch
A review by Leon J. Podles

French Future Tense

Soumission by Michel Houellebecq
by Graeme Hunter

An Engaged Woman
Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More— Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist by Karen Swallow Prior
A review by Joseph Stuchal

The Moral Physician
Practicing Medicine and Ethics: Integrating Wisdom, Conscience, and Goals of Care by Lauris Christopher Kaldjian
A review by Christopher Tollefsen

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