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“. . . The terrible fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell. . . .”
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (1971)
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25.3 — May/June 2012
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Reflections on the Present American Moment
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Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination by David Mills
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The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian
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Today's Culture Wars Are Both Ancient & Modern by Allan C. Carlson
34.1—January/February 2021
Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage by James Ware
32.1—January/February 2019
on Down Syndrome & the Lives That Matter by David F. Watson
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Illuminations
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From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
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Mortal Remains
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As It Is Written . . .
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
21.9 — November 2008
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The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
20.1 — January/February 2007
18.6 — July/August 2005
15.6 — July/August 2002
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
26.5 — Sept/Oct 2013
Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It
24.4 — July/August 2011
22.8 — November/December 2009
Todd Gitlin's Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
16.1 — January/February 2003
15.7 — September 2002
16.3 — April 2003
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
9.4 — Fall 1996
14.5 — June 2001
13.7 — September 2000
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
32.2 — March/April, 2019
Wake-Up Call
The Apocalypse: Warning, Hope & Consolation
by Michael D. O'Brien
A review by Jeffrey Wald
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
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
32.4 — 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
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