may/june

Net Effects

38:3 — may/june 2025

Net Effects

Athletics & Cultural Confusion
by Anthony Esolen

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
by Keith Lowery

Little Acquiescences

38:3 — may/june 2025

Little Acquiescences

Steven Faulkner on Timely Lessons from Cancer Ward

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)

18.4—May 2005

Of Weeds & Fairy Tales

The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian

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 (114 articles)

32.1—January/February 2019

The Life of Sean

on Down Syndrome & the Lives That Matter by David F. Watson

31.5—September/October 2018

Errands into the Moral Wilderness

Forms of Christian Family Witness & Renewal by Allan C. Carlson

23.1—January/February 2010

The Audacity of the State

It’s Bent on Bringing Down the House on the Family & the Church by Douglas Farrow

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

A Threefold Cord

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

A Sign of Contradiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

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

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

on works of Christian art

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

The Cathedral of Monreale

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First Books

by Kathie Johnson

on books for children

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

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Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

The Best of the Good

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Language Notes

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As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

All Their Cosmos

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

Thinking on Hannah

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Artisans of the Spirit

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past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

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(2005-2009)

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The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

18.6 — Nov/Dec 2005

Religious War & Peace

23.4 — July/August 2010

A Circle of Love

20.2 — March 2007

Prime Removers

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

16.5 — June 2003

Naples & New Towns

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Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

14.3 — April 2001

The Ever-Changing Scandal

14.9 — November 2001

Necessary Justice

(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

17.6 — July/August 2004

The Measure of Design

An conversation with William A. Dembski, Phillip E. Johnson, Jed Macosko, Paul Nelson, Edward Sisson, Richard Weikart, and Jonathan Witt About the Past, Present & Future of Darwinism & Design

16.10 — December 2003

Violence & the Lamb Slain

An Interview with Rene Girard

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book reviews

35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

A Retrieval
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari
A review by John M. Vella

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

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

Uppercut
Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.
edited with an introduction by George Weigel

A review by John M. Vella

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