january/february

Free Love & Its Votaries

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

Free Love & Its Votaries

The Nineteenth-Century Roots of America’s War on Marriage
by Alexander T. Riley

America vs. Europe

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

America vs. Europe

Two Roads to Totalitarianism
by Carlo Lancellotti

What Was I Made For?

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

What Was I Made For?

Keith Lowery on How My Wedding Vows Saved My Life

How Green Was Our Valley

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

How Green Was Our Valley

A Model for Sex Educators
by Peter Maurice

Elder Vintage

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

Elder Vintage

David Mills on Aging, Preaching & Writing Wisely

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

19.10—December 2006

Enchanting Children

Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination by David Mills

from the archives on family (113 articles)

30.1—Jan/Feb 2017

Family Matters

Domestic Altars & Godly Offspring by Allan C. Carlson

32.1—January/February 2019

The Life of Sean

on Down Syndrome & the Lives That Matter by David F. Watson

24.4—July/August 2011

Global Power Grab

The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family by Patrick F. Fagan

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

To the Heart of Specificity

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Cool of the Evening

(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

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

The Cathedral of Monreale

(See all)

First Books

by Kathie Johnson

on books for children

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

37.3 — May/June 2024

More on the Far East

(See all)

Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Language Notes

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Out of the Depth

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Insidious Winsomeness

(See all)

As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Artisans of the Spirit

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Family Man

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Scriptures’ Greek Nuance

(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)

19.7 — September 2006

Getting Over Dover

22.6 — July/August 2009

The Heart of Africa

22.4 — May 2009

Truths in Fiction

(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)

15.10 — December 2002

Cubist Scripture

17.7 — September 2004

Literary Revelation

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

9.1 — Winter 1996

Dress for Success

11.1 — January/February 1998

Loving Kindness

13.6 — July/August 2000

Men in Full

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

14.4 — May 2001

Latvia Revived

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

17.6 — July/August 2004

The Measure of Design

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

15.8 — October 2002

Darwin as Epicurean

An Interview with Benjamin Wiker

(See all)

book reviews

35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022

A Promising Dialogue
Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective edited by Bradley Nassif and Tim Grass
A review by Philip LeMasters

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Biblical Skepticism
The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture by Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker
A review by Thomas Banks

35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

Son of Odysseus
Telegonos: A Tragedy in Verse by Jonathan Golding
A review by Louis Markos

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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