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Net Effects

38:3 — may/june 2025

Net Effects

Athletics & Cultural Confusion
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America After Christianity

38:3 — may/june 2025

Supreme Thinking

Christianity & the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence
by Thomas B. Fowler

Good Bad Examples

38:3 — may/june 2025

Good Bad Examples

Patrick Henry Reardon on Godly Lessons from Biblical Failures

The Gnostic Thread

38:3 — may/june 2025

The Gnostic Thread

The Anti-Christian Rush Toward Disembodiment
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Little Acquiescences

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Little Acquiescences

Steven Faulkner on Timely Lessons from Cancer Ward

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Chris Wiley at the Touchstone Conference

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Make Men Pious Again

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October 14, 2022

The Politics of Nothingness

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from the archives on imagination (40 articles)

11.5—September/October 1998

Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp

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

19.10—December 2006

Enchanting Children

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

from the archives on family (114 articles)

28.2—March/April 2015

As Goes Sweden

Neo-Pagan Family Policies Doom Any Recovery by Allan C. Carlson

32.4—July/August 2019

An Alien Warfare

Today's Culture Wars Are Both Ancient & Modern by Allan C. Carlson

33.3—May/June 2020

Maternity as Theophany

Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East by Carrie Frederick Frost
Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage Through Pregnancy by Laura S. Jansson by Agnes R. Howard

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

A Threefold Cord

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A Sign of Contradiction

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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

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on works of Christian art

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

The Cathedral of Monreale

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First Books

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on books for children

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

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North-Central Europe

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

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Mortal Remains

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on theology and culture

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

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The Best of the Good

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Language Notes

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As It Is Written . . .

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on the bible and theology

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All Their Cosmos

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Thinking on Hannah

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Artisans of the Spirit

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past columns

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by various authors

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on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

21.4 — May 2008

Science Futures

17.8 — October 2004

Overestimating AIDS

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Contours of Culture

by Ken Myers

on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)

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Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences

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The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

18.1 — January/February 2005

Empty Spaces of the Word

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Practical Christianity

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pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

15.6 — July/August 2002

Not So Cheap

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Knowing God’s Will

13.2 — March 2000

Raising the Bar

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Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

A Faithful Knowledge

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13.6 — July/August 2000

Swedish Dissent

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27.4 — July/August 2014

The Art & Craft of Shakespeare

An Interview with Peter Leithart

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book reviews

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

Revelatory Science
Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
A review by Neil English

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

Progressively Stoic
Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition by Lisa Hill and Eden Blazejak
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35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

Son of Odysseus
Telegonos: A Tragedy in Verse by Jonathan Golding
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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
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