may/june

Net Effects

38:3 — may/june 2025

Net Effects

Athletics & Cultural Confusion
by Anthony Esolen

America After Christianity

38:3 — may/june 2025

Supreme Thinking

Christianity & the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence
by Thomas B. Fowler

Good Bad Examples

38:3 — may/june 2025

Good Bad Examples

Patrick Henry Reardon on Godly Lessons from Biblical Failures

The Gnostic Thread

38:3 — may/june 2025

The Gnostic Thread

The Anti-Christian Rush Toward Disembodiment
by Keith Lowery

Little Acquiescences

38:3 — may/june 2025

Little Acquiescences

Steven Faulkner on Timely Lessons from Cancer Ward

conference videos (see all)

Chris Wiley at the Touchstone Conference

October 12, 2018

Make Men Pious Again

—C. R. Wiley

October 14, 2022

The Politics of Nothingness

—Michael Hanby

from the archives on imagination (40 articles)

19.10—December 2006

Enchanting Children

Training Up a Child Requires a Well-Formed Imagination by David Mills

18.4—May 2005

Of Weeds & Fairy Tales

The Idylls, Idols & Devils That Corrupt the Moral Imagination by Vigen Guroian

from the archives on family (114 articles)

34.1—January/February 2021

Whose Wife Shall She Be?

Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage by James Ware

36.1—Jan/Feb 2023

Contraceptive Cons

A History of the Protestant Debate over Contraception by James A. Altena

32.4—July/August 2019

An Alien Warfare

Today's Culture Wars Are Both Ancient & Modern by Allan C. Carlson

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

A Threefold Cord

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

A Sign of Contradiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

To the Heart of Specificity

(See all)

From Heavenly Harmony

by Ken Myers

on classical music

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Restless Beauty

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Apprehending the Music of Being

(See all)

A Thousand Words

by Mary Elizabeth Podles

on works of Christian art

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

The Cathedral of Monreale

(See all)

First Books

by Kathie Johnson

on books for children

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

(See all)

Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

The Best of the Good

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Language Notes

(See all)

As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

All Their Cosmos

38.2 — Mar/Apr 2025

Thinking on Hannah

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Artisans of the Spirit

(See all)

past columns

Book Returns

by various authors

Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)

18.8 — October 2005

Jack Kerouac's On the Road

(See all)

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

20.6 — July/August 2007

They Are A-Changin’

16.2 — March 2003

Scouts & God

(See all)

Contours of Culture

by Ken Myers

on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)

27.1 — Jan/Feb 2014

George MacDonald & Phantastes

22.7 — September/October 2009

Jacques Barzun's The Use and Abuse of Art

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

6.2 — Spring 1993

Ranks of Prayer

11.2 — March/April 1998

Saying You’re Sorry

14.10 — December 2001

The Cardinal Virtue of Fortitude

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

14.6 — July/August 2001

Coming Out of Homosexuality

An Interview with Bob Davies of Exodus International

8.4 — Fall 1995

Turning Hearts to the Fathers Part II

A Conversation With Thomas C. Oden

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

A Faithful Knowledge

A Conversation with Stephen C. Meyer

(See all)

book reviews

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

Revelatory Science
Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
A review by Neil English

35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

Total Immersion
Baptism: A Guide to Life from Death by Peter J. Leithart
A review by Joshua Pauling

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

Progressively Stoic
Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition by Lisa Hill and Eden Blazejak
A review by Max Longley

35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

A Tale Told by an Idiot
The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare edited by Jan H. Blits
A review by R. V. Young

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