january/february

Free Love & Its Votaries

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

Free Love & Its Votaries

The Nineteenth-Century Roots of America’s War on Marriage
by Alexander T. Riley

America vs. Europe

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

America vs. Europe

Two Roads to Totalitarianism
by Carlo Lancellotti

What Was I Made For?

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

What Was I Made For?

Keith Lowery on How My Wedding Vows Saved My Life

How Green Was Our Valley

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

How Green Was Our Valley

A Model for Sex Educators
by Peter Maurice

Elder Vintage

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

Elder Vintage

David Mills on Aging, Preaching & Writing Wisely

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

10.4—Fall 1997

Lessons from the Nursery

The Catholic Imagination Encounters Bambi by James L. Sauer

from the archives on family (113 articles)

31.1—January/February 2018

In Defense of Prudery

The Wisdom of the Victorian Quest for Innocence by David Sandifer

34.1—January/February 2021

Whose Wife Shall She Be?

Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage by James Ware

30.1—Jan/Feb 2017

Family Matters

Domestic Altars & Godly Offspring by Allan C. Carlson

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

To the Heart of Specificity

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Cool of the Evening

(See all)

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

(See all)

A Thousand Words

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

on works of Christian art

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

The Cathedral of Monreale

(See all)

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

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Language Notes

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Out of the Depth

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Insidious Winsomeness

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As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Artisans of the Spirit

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Family Man

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Scriptures’ Greek Nuance

(See all)

past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

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

18.10 — December 2005

Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society

18.8 — October 2005

Jack Kerouac's On the Road

(See all)

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

20.4 — May 2007

The Two-Brain Solution

23.2 — March/April 2010

Atheist Crusaders

21.6 — July/August 2008

Harboring Homeschoolers

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

15.10 — December 2002

Cubist Scripture

15.7 — September 2002

Disaster Canada

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

12.5 — September/October 1999

Looking Beyond Ourselves

17.3 — April 2004

The Lost Art of Mercy

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

4.2 — Special Issue: The Bible 1991

Recovering the Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures

An Interview with Fr. Paul Quay, S.J.

14.6 — July/August 2001

Coming Out of Homosexuality

An Interview with Bob Davies of Exodus International

13.9 — November 2000

Dialogue with a Dominican

An Interview with Aidan Nichols, O. P.

(See all)

book reviews

35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

Gnostic Anti-Sexuals
Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female by Brian Patrick Mitchell
A review by Allan C. Carlson

35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

Points of Contact
The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church by Bradley Nassif
A review by Louis Markos

35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022

A Promising Dialogue
Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective edited by Bradley Nassif and Tim Grass
A review by Philip LeMasters

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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