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38:4 — july/august 2025
Principles for Living in the Negative World
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38:4 — july/august 2025
Patrick Henry Reardon on Proverbial Answers for Annoying Questions
38:4 — july/august 2025
Blake Adams on Lectionaries & the Reading of Scripture as Worship
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A Guidepost in Our Current Misery
Chateaubriand’s The Genius of Christianity by Alexander T. Riley
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from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)
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Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus by Randall B. Smith
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An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton by James Bryson
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Christ, Individualism & the Meaning of Cultural Diversity by Anthony Esolen
34.1—January/February 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
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As It Is Written . . .
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past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
19.1 — January/February 2006
22.3 — April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
19.2 — March 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
20.2 — March 2007
23.6 — November/December 2010
21.8 — October 2008
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
24.4 — July/August 2011
23.3 — May/June 2010
24.2 — March/April 2011
Colin Gunton's Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.7 — September 2002
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
12.5 — September/October 1999
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14.8 — October 2001
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
17.6 — July/August 2004
An conversation with William A. Dembski, Phillip E. Johnson, Jed Macosko, Paul Nelson, Edward Sisson, Richard Weikart, and Jonathan Witt About the Past, Present & Future of Darwinism & Design
book reviews
35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
The Last Cavalier Poet
Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose edited by Robert Asch
A review by André Gushurst-Moore
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
35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022
A Pastor & a Poet
David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms by Malcolm Guite
A review by Thomas Banks
35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022
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Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
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