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“. . . For the ancients, to meditate is to read a text and to learn it "by heart" in the fullest sense of this expression, that is, with one's whole being: with the body, since the mouth pronounced it, with the memory which fixes it, with the intelligence which understands its meaning, and with the will which desires to put it into practice. . . .”
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture (1961)
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35:3 — may/june 2022
Hans Boersma on the Emerging Totalitarianism of the New Biopolitics
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James Lindsay's Search for Love & Meaning Without God by Brian Dunne
35:3 — may/june 2022
The Cascading Beauty of Fractals in C. S. Lewis, Scripture & Art by Stanley E. Anderson
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from the archives on imagination (21 articles)
19.10—December 2006
Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination by David Mills
from the archives on family (84 articles)
24.4—July/August 2011
The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family by Patrick F. Fagan
33.3—May/June 2020
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
23.1—January/February 2010
It’s Bent on Bringing Down the House on the Family & the Church by Douglas Farrow
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Illuminations
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From Heavenly Harmony
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Mortal Remains
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As It Is Written . . .
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
19.9 — November 2006
22.3 — April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
21.9 — November 2008
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
20.6 — July/August 2007
22.8 — November/December 2009
23.6 — November/December 2010
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
27.1 — Jan/Feb 2014
27.2 — March/April 2014
Calvin Stapert's A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
23.4 — July/August 2010
Nathan O. Hatch's The Democratization of American Christianity
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.3 — April 2002
18.1 — January/February 2005
15.4 — May 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
14.4 — May 2001
17.2 — March 2004
8.1 — Winter 1995
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
13.6 — July/August 2000
Life as an Orthodox Churchman in the Church of Sweden: An interview with Dag Sandahl
book reviews
32.6 — November/December, 2019
Stargazers' Log
Chronicling the Golden Age of Astronomy: A History of Visual Observing from Harriot to Moore
by Neil English
A review by Guillermo Gonzalez
32.5 — September/October, 2019
A Dual Estrangement
Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A review by James A. Altena
32.5 — September/October, 2019
Healing East & West
The Orthodox Reality: Culture, Theology, and Ethics in the Modern World
by Vigen Guroian
A review by John G. Panagiotou
32.2 — March/April, 2019
Shortfall
Deeper Magic: The Theology Behind the Writings of C. S. Lewis by Donald T. Williams
A review by S. M. Hutchens
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