Touchstone Archives: October, 2006

19.8—October 2006

editorials

by James M. Kushiner

by S. M. Hutchens

columns

The Leading Edge
Two Men & a Maybe
by Phillip E. Johnson

As It Is Written...
Scroll Food
by Patrick Henry Reardon

Blue Songs & Red Cowboys
What Presbyterians, Baptists & Episcopalians Did over Summer Vacation
by Mark Tooley

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features

Hearts Uplifted
Or, How to Sing Your Way Out of Hell
by Anthony Esolen

Waking Up Is Hard to Do

How Walker Percy Brought Sin & Grace to the New Yorker Reader
by Thomas Howard

Random Acts of Design
Francis Collins Sees Evidence That God Made the Cosmos—But Life Is
by Jonathan Witt

views

Over the Counterculture
Wilfred M. McClay on Transgressive Bohemians as Regressive Bobos

The Best Fears of Our Lives
Russell D. Moore on the Good Father’s Quiet Desperation

Livestock Exchange
Mark D. Linville on Peter Singer’s Bestial Loss of Moral Reasoning

Napoleon Blown Apart

Michael E. Bailey on the Pauline Aliens of Preston, Idaho

book reviews

Gall in the Family
Faith of My Fathers by Chris Seay
A review by Mark Coppenger

Highest Comedy
Paradise by Dante Alighieri,
edited and translated by Anthony Esolen
A review by R. V. Young

Men at Worship

Why Men Hate Going To Church
by David Murrow
by S. M. Hutchens

The Battle of Abraham

Lincoln’s Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk
by Beth Impson

Gospel Beads

The Rosary by Garry Wills
by Michael P. Orsi

Exit Window
Everyman by Philip Roth
A review by Graeme Hunter

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