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38:5 — sept/oct 2025
Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity by Gary Saul Morson
38:5 — sept/oct 2025
In Search of the Baptism of the Imagination by Wilfred M. McClay
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How to Regard a New Term of Belittlement by J. Douglas Johnson
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Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man
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The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos
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from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)
32.6—November/December 2019
An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton by James Bryson
29.5—Sept/Oct 2016
on Past & Present Atheism & the Invention of Happiness by Jordan Bissell
from the archives on culture (292 articles)
34.1—January/February 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma
29.3—May/June 2016
Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ by Anthony Esolen
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
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As It Is Written . . .
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
19.1 — January/February 2006
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18.10 — December 2005
The Leading Edge
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(2001–2013)
24.4 — July/August 2011
24.6 — Nov/Dec 2011
17.8 — October 2004
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
26.1 — Jan/Feb 2013
25.6 — Nov/Dec 2012
Oliver O'Donovan's Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics
26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
16.1 — January/February 2003
15.6 — July/August 2002
16.4 — May 2003
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
8.4 — Fall 1995
15.9 — November 2002
11.5 — September/October 1998
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
15.6 — July/August 2002
An Interview with Norwegian Dissident Roald Flemestad
book reviews
35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
Total Immersion
Baptism: A Guide to Life from Death by Peter J. Leithart
A review by Joshua Pauling
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
A review by John G. Panagiotou
35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022
A Pastor & a Poet
David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms by Malcolm Guite
A review by Thomas Banks
35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
Uppercut
Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.
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