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“. . . Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of Western culture for almost twenty centuries. If it were possible, with some sort of super magnet, to pull up out of that history every scrap of metal bearing at least a trace of his name, how much would be left? . . .”
quoted in The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard
Editor's Picks
25.3 — May/Jun 2012
Calls for Freedom, Democracy & Secularism End Up with None of the Above by Hunter Baker
24.1 — January/February 2011
How Planned Parenthood's Founder Played the Christians, and Won by Allan C. Carlson
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022
35:5 — september/october 2022
Prevarications About Abortion in the Highest Places by R. V. Young
35:5 — september/october 2022
Metaverse Delusions vs. the Reality of Body & Soul by Boyd R. Collins
35:5 — september/october 2022
“Religion” Is Not the Right Response to Such Evil by S. M. Hutchens
35:5 — september/october 2022
Sean C. Hadley on Russell Kirk’s "Ex Tenebris" & the Moral Imagination
35:5 — september/october 2022
Lessons from Early Christians . . . and from Our Great-Grandparents by Allan C. Carlson
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from the archives on imagination (21 articles)
18.4—May 2005
The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
from the archives on family (87 articles)
33.2—March/April 2020
Christian Pro-Family Governments?
Old & New Lessons from Europe—from the 2019 Touchstone Conference by Allan C. Carlson
31.1—January/February 2018
The Wisdom of the Victorian Quest for Innocence by David Sandifer
31.5—September/October 2018
Errands into the Moral Wilderness
Forms of Christian Family Witness & Renewal by Allan C. Carlson
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
35.5 — Sept/Oct 2022
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35.3 — May/Jun 2022
on works of Christian art
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35.4 — Jul/Aug 2022
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
on books for children
35.5 — Sept/Oct 2022
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As It Is Written . . .
on the bible and theology
35.5 — Sept/Oct 2022
35.4 — Jul/Aug 2022
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
18.7 — September 2005
18.8 — October 2005
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
17.4 — May 2004
26.3 — May/June 2013
26.5 — Sept/Oct 2013
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
24.6 — Nov/Dec 2011
A. J. Conyers's The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit
23.6 — November/December 2010
27.2 — March/April 2014
Calvin Stapert's A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
17.7 — September 2004
15.3 — April 2002
16.5 — June 2003
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
11.1 — January/February 1998
13.1 — January/February 2000
14.7 — September 2001
book reviews
32.5 — September/October, 2019
A Dual Estrangement
Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A review by James A. Altena
32.2 — March/April, 2019
Shortfall
Deeper Magic: The Theology Behind the Writings of C. S. Lewis by Donald T. Williams
A review by S. M. Hutchens
32.3 — May/June, 2019
Shame & Redemption
The Crucifix on Mecca's Front Porch: A Christian's Companion for the Study of Islam
A review by Casey Chalk
32.4 — July/August, 2019
Novel Conversion
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
by Cynthia L. Haven
A review by David K. Anderson
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