july/august

Positively Christian

38:4 — july/august 2025

Positively Christian

Principles for Living in the Negative World
by Aaron Renn

Rules for Fools

38:4 — july/august 2025

Rules for Fools

Patrick Henry Reardon on Proverbial Answers for Annoying Questions

Rightly Dividing the Word

38:4 — july/august 2025

Rightly Dividing the Word

Blake Adams on Lectionaries & the Reading of Scripture as Worship

The Gnostic Thread

38:4 — july/august 2025

Fundamentalism

A Cross We Must Now Take Up by S. M. Hutchens

A Guidepost in Our Current Misery

38:3 — may/june 2025

A Guidepost in Our Current Misery

Chateaubriand’s The Genius of Christianity by Alexander T. Riley

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

10.4—Fall 1997

Lessons from the Nursery

The Catholic Imagination Encounters Bambi by James L. Sauer

from the archives on family (114 articles)

32.4—July/August 2019

An Alien Warfare

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

34.1—January/February 2021

Whose Wife Shall She Be?

Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage by James Ware

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

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Forgotten Mode

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

A Threefold Cord

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

A Sign of Contradiction

(See all)

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

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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

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Three Tests

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

The Best of the Good

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As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

Second Thoughts on Saul

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

All Their Cosmos

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

Thinking on Hannah

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past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)

18.10 — December 2005

Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society

(See all)

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

25.4 — July/August 2012

Out from the Ether

22.2 — March 2009

Thought for Food

16.10 — December 2003

Mothballed Science

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

17.7 — September 2004

Literary Revelation

16.5 — June 2003

Naples & New Towns

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

9.4 — Fall 1996

Men of Violence

13.7 — September 2000

Knowing God’s Will

11.6 — November/December 1998

Rediscovering Advent

(See all)

Interviews

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Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

14.6 — July/August 2001

Coming Out of Homosexuality

An Interview with Bob Davies of Exodus International

27.4 — July/August 2014

The Art & Craft of Shakespeare

An Interview with Peter Leithart

14.4 — May 2001

Latvia Revived

Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia

(See all)

book reviews

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

35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

Capturing Audiences
C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication by Steven Beebe
A review by Arthur W. Hunt III

35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

A Reclamation
In Defense of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful: On the Loss of Transcendence and the Decline of the West by Jordan Cooper
A review by Samuel G. Parkison

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