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“. . . I cannot myself imagine a more fearful fate for our species than that they should so habituate themselves to their earthly circumstances as to be finally contented with them, or a more sublime one than that they should continue till the end of time to peer into the distance after the land that is very far off. . . .”
Jesus Rediscovered (1969)
Editor's Picks
25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012
Sherlock Holmes, Umberto Eco & the Search for Meaning by Louis Markos
26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013
on the Suffering of Faith & the Paradox of Psalm 88 by Stephen Muse
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
19.10—December 2006
Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination by David Mills
from the archives on family (87 articles)
32.1—January/February 2019
on Down Syndrome & the Lives That Matter by David F. Watson
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
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
35.5 — Sept/Oct 2022
35.4 — Jul/Aug 2022
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
on works of Christian art
35.5 — Sept/Oct 2022
35.4 — Jul/Aug 2022
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
on books for children
35.5 — Sept/Oct 2022
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
35.1 — January/February 2022
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)
19.2 — March 2006
21.6 — July/August 2008
19.1 — January/February 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
14.8 — October 2001
20.8 — October 2007
14.6 — July/August 2001
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
26.6 — Nov/Dec 2013
Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by Hans Boersma
27.2 — March/April 2014
Calvin Stapert's A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
23.2 — March/April 2010
Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value by Julian Johnson
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.7 — September 2002
15.10 — December 2002
16.4 — May 2003
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
10.1 — Winter 1997
15.1 — January/February 2002
9.2 — Spring 1996
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
14.4 — May 2001
Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia
13.6 — July/August 2000
Life as an Orthodox Churchman in the Church of Sweden: An interview with Dag Sandahl
book reviews
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
A Dual Estrangement
Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A review by James A. Altena
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
32.2 — 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
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