march/april

A Creed Awakening

38:2 — mar/apr 2025

A Creed Awakening

On the 1,700th Anniversary of Nicaea
by Patrick Henry Reardon

The Question of Human Identity

38:2 — mar/apr 2025

The Question of Human Identity

The Full Christian Answer to Modernity’s Crisis
by George Hobson

The King & the Lamb

38:2 — mar/apr 2025

The King & the Lamb

The Whole Biblical Story in Handel’s Messiah, Oftentimes Missed
by Calvin Stapert

Science Disrobed

38:2 — mar/apr 2025

Science Disrobed

The Misuse of Scientific “Authority” for Utopian Ends
by Thomas S. Buchanan

Panopticon Control

38:2 — mar/apr 2025

Panopticon Control

Hans Boersma on Our Creaturely Rejection of a Theophanizing God

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)

11.5—September/October 1998

Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp

An Essay on Myth & 'Real Life' by Stratford Caldecott

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)

21.8—October 2008

Weed Free

on Tending a Child’s Garden of Influences by John Thompson

32.1—January/February 2019

The Life of Sean

on Down Syndrome & the Lives That Matter by David F. Watson

28.2—March/April 2015

As Goes Sweden

Neo-Pagan Family Policies Doom Any Recovery 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)

(See all)

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

14.10 — December 2001

Back Home in Mitford

18.2 — March 2005

The Power of Joan

18.6 — Nov/Dec 2005

Religious War & Peace

(See all)

Contours of Culture

by Ken Myers

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

23.5 — September/October 2010

The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

15.3 — April 2002

The Ring of Terror

16.1 — January/February 2003

Man Is a Wolf to Man

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

8.3 — Summer 1995

Wrestling for Jesus

11.6 — November/December 1998

Rediscovering Advent

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

22.8 — November/December 2009

Remains of the Swedes

An Interview with Bishop Göran Beijer of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden

26.3 — May/June 2013

Whispers of Doom

Jonathan V. Last on Faith, Hope & the Coming Population Implosion

14.6 — July/August 2001

Coming Out of Homosexuality

An Interview with Bob Davies of Exodus International

(See all)

book reviews

35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022

Unreal Liberals
The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism by D. C. Schindler
A review by J. Douglas Johnson

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

The Living Bible
Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew by Hans Boersma
A review by Thomas Banks

35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

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

35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

Gnostic Anti-Sexuals
Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female by Brian Patrick Mitchell
A review by Allan C. Carlson

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