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“. . . For the ancients, to meditate is to read a text and to learn it "by heart" in the fullest sense of this expression, that is, with one's whole being: with the body, since the mouth pronounced it, with the memory which fixes it, with the intelligence which understands its meaning, and with the will which desires to put it into practice. . . .”
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture (1961)
Editor's Picks
26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013
on the Suffering of Faith & the Paradox of Psalm 88 by Stephen Muse
31.6 — November/December 2018
The Critical Role of Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis by Donald T. Williams
MAY/JUNE 2022
35:3 — may/june 2022
Hans Boersma on the Emerging Totalitarianism of the New Biopolitics
35:3 — may/june 2022
James Lindsay's Search for Love & Meaning Without God by Brian Dunne
35:3 — may/june 2022
The Cascading Beauty of Fractals in C. S. Lewis, Scripture & Art by Stanley E. Anderson
conference videos (see all)
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 (84 articles)
32.1—January/February 2019
on Down Syndrome & the Lives That Matter by David F. Watson
31.5—September/October 2018
Errands into the Moral Wilderness
Forms of Christian Family Witness & Renewal by Allan C. Carlson
current columns
Illuminations
on Christian hymns
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
35.2 — Mar/Apr 2022
35.1 — January/February 2022
From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
35.2 — Mar/Apr 2022
35.1 — January/February 2022
on works of Christian art
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
35.1 — January/February 2022
34.6 — Nov/Dec 2021
on books for children
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
35.2 — Mar/Apr 2022
35.1 — January/February 2022
Mortal Remains
on theology and culture
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
35.2 — Mar/Apr 2022
35.1 — January/February 2022
As It Is Written . . .
on the bible and theology
35.3 — May/Jun 2022
35.2 — Mar/Apr 2022
35.1 — January/February 2022
past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
19.7 — September 2006
22.3 — April 2009
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
18.7 — September 2005
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
24.4 — July/August 2011
20.10 — December 2007
17.4 — May 2004
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
25.5 — Sept/Oct 2012
Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology by Eugene Peterson
24.4 — July/August 2011
25.2 — March/April 2012
Craig Gay's The Way of the (Modern) World: Or, Why It's Tempting to Live As If God Doesn't Exist
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.9 — November 2002
16.3 — April 2003
15.5 — June 2002
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
12.6 — November/December 1999
17.3 — April 2004
17.1 — January/February 2004
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
14.4 — May 2001
Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia
26.3 — May/June 2013
Jonathan V. Last on Faith, Hope & the Coming Population Implosion
book reviews
32.2 — March/April, 2019
The Aura of Science
Flight from the Absolute: Cynical Observations on the Postmodern West, Volume II
by Paul Gosselin
A review by Louis Markos
32.2 — March/April, 2019
Wake-Up Call
The Apocalypse: Warning, Hope & Consolation
by Michael D. O'Brien
A review by Jeffrey Wald
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
32.4 — 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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