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“. . . Beware lest your religion be one of feeling merely, not of practice. Men may speak in a high imaginative way of the ancient Saints and the Holy Apostolic Church, without making the fervour or refinement of their devotion bear upon their conduct. Many a man likes to be religious in graceful language; he loves religious tales and hymns, yet is never the better Christian for all this . . . and he who does one deed of obedience for Christ's sake, let him have no imagination and no fine feeling, is a better man, and returns to his home justified rather than the most eloquent speaker, and the most sensitive hearer, of the glory of the Gospel, if such men do not practise up their knowledge. . . .”
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from the archives on imagination (21 articles)
11.5—September/October 1998
Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp
An Essay on Myth &“Real Life” by Stratford Caldecott
19.10—December 2006
Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination by David Mills
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33.2—March/April 2020
Christian Pro-Family Governments?
Old & New Lessons from Europe—from the 2019 Touchstone Conference by Allan C. Carlson
32.1—January/February 2019
on Down Syndrome & the Lives That Matter by David F. Watson
24.4—July/August 2011
The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family by Patrick F. Fagan
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Illuminations
on Christian hymns
34.4 — July/August 2021
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From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
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on works of Christian art
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Mortal Remains
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As It Is Written . . .
on the bible and theology
34.4 — July/August 2021
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
18.9 — November 2005
21.6 — July/August 2008
19.7 — September 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
14.6 — July/August 2001
15.6 — July/August 2002
23.2 — March/April 2010
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
24.4 — July/August 2011
22.6 — July/August 2009
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.4 — May 2002
16.5 — June 2003
15.5 — June 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
11.6 — November/December 1998
15.1 — January/February 2002
11.5 — September/October 1998
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
4.2 — Special Issue: The Bible 1991
Recovering the Spiritual Sense of the Scriptures
An Interview with Fr. Paul Quay, S.J.
26.3 — May/June 2013
Jonathan V. Last on Faith, Hope & the Coming Population Implosion
book reviews
32.5 — September/October, 2019
Healing East & West
The Orthodox Reality: Culture, Theology, and Ethics in the Modern World
by Vigen Guroian
A review by John G. Panagiotou
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
32.6 — November/December, 2019
Strategic Christians
The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
by Alan Jacobs
A review by Jesse Russell
32.6 — November/December, 2019
Stargazers' Log
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by Neil English
A review by Guillermo Gonzalez
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