september / october

Beyond Belief

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Beyond Belief

Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity by Gary Saul Morson

 Compelling Art

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Compelling Art

In Search of the Baptism of the Imagination by Wilfred M. McClay

Very Religious

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

“Very Religious”

How to Regard a New Term of Belittlement by J. Douglas Johnson

Adagio for Joseph

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Adagio for Joseph

Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man

Contradictory Man

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Contradictory Man

The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos

conference videos (see all)

America After Christianity

September 27, 2024

Neopaganism's Dark Enchantment

—John Daniel Davidson

September 28, 2024

The Urgency of Wonder

—Rod Dreher

September 26, 2024

Principles for Living in the Negative World

—Aaron Renn

from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)

25.6—Nov/Dec 2012

Clashing Symbols

The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft

24.2—March/April 2011

Our Numbered Days

Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus by Randall B. Smith

from the archives on culture (292 articles)

32.5—September/October 2019

Must Say No

on When Christians Can't Compromise by Joshua Steely

31.2—March/April 2018

Millennial Mission

The Transmission of Christianity Is Not a New Task by Nathanael Devlin

20.7—September 2007

Retaking Mars Hill

Paul Didn’t Build Bridges to Popular Culture by Russell D. Moore

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Hymns of Creation

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Forgotten Mode

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

A Threefold Cord

(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

(See all)

A Thousand Words

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

on works of Christian art

(See all)

First Books

by Kathie Johnson

on books for children

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Reading About the Holocaust

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

(See all)

Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Vanity & the Work of the Cobbler

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Three Tests

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

(See all)

As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

A Persian Parody

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

Second Thoughts on Saul

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

All Their Cosmos

(See all)

past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

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

(See all)

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

20.6 — July/August 2007

They Are A-Changin’

26.5 — Sept/Oct 2013

Darwin's Doubt Still Mine

25.4 — July/August 2012

Out from the Ether

(See all)

Contours of Culture

by Ken Myers

on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)

27.1 — Jan/Feb 2014

George MacDonald & Phantastes

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

17.7 — September 2004

Literary Revelation

16.3 — April 2003

Choosing Truth or Power

15.4 — May 2002

Flying High at Trinity

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

14.10 — December 2001

The Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude

9.1 — Winter 1996

Dress for Success

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

24.2 — March/April 2011

Courage & Conversion

An Interview with Hadley Arkes

14.1 — January/February 2001

Woman on A Mission

Elisabeth Elliot on Missions, Youth, Men & Women

22.8 — November/December 2009

Remains of the Swedes

An Interview with Bishop Göran Beijer of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden

(See all)

book reviews

35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022

Unreal Liberals
The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism by D. C. Schindler
A review by J. Douglas Johnson

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Minority Warning
Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
A review by Allan C. Carlson

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Greek Odyssey
Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life by Eric Metaxas
A review by Louis Markos

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

The Living Bible
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew by Hans Boersma
A review by Thomas Banks

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