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“. . . A man who has never had that experience [of the Prodigal Son], be it only very briefly, who has never felt that he is exiled from God and from real life, will never understand what Christianity is about. And the one who is perfectly "at home" in this world and its life, who has never been wounded by the nostalgic desire for another Reality, will not understand what is repentance. . . .”
"The Sunday of the Prodigal Son," Great Lent (1974)
Editor's Picks
31.6 — November/December 2018
The Critical Role of Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis by Donald T. Williams
16.5 — June 2003
on the Importance of Fathers to Churchgoing by Robbie Low
25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012
Sherlock Holmes, Umberto Eco & the Search for Meaning by Louis Markos
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
It's Not What Some Think It Should Be
by J. Douglas Johnson
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
His Recent Voyage Off the Flat Earth of Revisionist Historians
by Alexander F. C. Webster
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
Christina Ray Stanton on a Firsthand Encounter with Terror & Conversion
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
Reading Beowulf, Magnifying Christ
What Tolkien Taught Me About the Gospels
by Gavin T. Richardson
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
The Love of Purity Opens Our Minds to a Radiant Mystery by Anthony Esolen
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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
from the archives on family (81 articles)
23.1—January/February 2010
It’s Bent on Bringing Down the House on the Family & the Church by Douglas Farrow
33.3—May/June 2020
Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East by Carrie Frederick Frost
Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage Through Pregnancy by Laura S. Jansson
by Agnes R. Howard
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From Heavenly Harmony
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As It Is Written . . .
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
18.9 — November 2005
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The Leading Edge
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(2001–2013)
20.6 — July/August 2007
22.8 — November/December 2009
15.2 — March 2002
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
22.8 — November/December 2009
Todd Gitlin's Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives
24.1 — January/February 2011
James Turner's Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America
22.6 — July/August 2009
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.9 — November 2002
16.5 — June 2003
15.8 — October 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
14.10 — December 2001
14.9 — November 2001
11.2 — March/April 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.
22.8 — November/December 2009
An Interview with Bishop Göran Beijer of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden
book reviews
32.4 — July/August, 2019
Then They Will Come for Us
Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemöller, The Pastor Who Defied the Nazis by Matthew D. Hockenos
A review by J. Daryl Charles
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
32.6 — November/December, 2019
Stargazers' Log
Chronicling the Golden Age of Astronomy: A History of Visual Observing from Harriot to Moore
by Neil English
A review by Guillermo Gonzalez
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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