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“. . . A man who has never had that experience [of the Prodigal Son], be it only very briefly, who has never felt that he is exiled from God and from real life, will never understand what Christianity is about. And the one who is perfectly "at home" in this world and its life, who has never been wounded by the nostalgic desire for another Reality, will not understand what is repentance. . . .”
"The Sunday of the Prodigal Son," Great Lent (1974)
Editor's Picks
25.3 — May/June 2012
Calls for Freedom, Democracy & Secularism End Up with None of the Above by Hunter Baker
26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013
on the Suffering of Faith & the Paradox of Psalm 88 by Stephen Muse
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2021
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
It's Not What Some Think It Should Be
by J. Douglas Johnson
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
His Recent Voyage Off the Flat Earth of Revisionist Historians
by Alexander F. C. Webster
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
Christina Ray Stanton on a Firsthand Encounter with Terror & Conversion
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
Reading Beowulf, Magnifying Christ
What Tolkien Taught Me About the Gospels
by Gavin T. Richardson
34:5 — sept/oct 2021
The Love of Purity Opens Our Minds to a Radiant Mystery by Anthony Esolen
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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 (81 articles)
33.2—March/April 2020
Encounters with Faith & Forgiveness in Communities of Faith by Nicole M. King
23.1—January/February 2010
It’s Bent on Bringing Down the House on the Family & the Church by Douglas Farrow
33.2—March/April 2020
Christian Pro-Family Governments?
Old & New Lessons from Europe—from the 2019 Touchstone Conference by Allan C. Carlson
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Illuminations
on Christian hymns
34.5 — September/October 2021
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From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
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on works of Christian art
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Mortal Remains
on theology and culture
34.5 — September/October 2021
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As It Is Written . . .
on the bible and theology
34.5 — September/October 2021
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Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
21.9 — November 2008
18.7 — September 2005
19.7 — September 2006
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
15.8 — October 2002
22.6 — July/August 2009
20.2 — March 2007
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
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
25.4 — July/August 2012
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
17.7 — September 2004
15.7 — September 2002
16.4 — May 2003
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
11.2 — March/April 1998
13.9 — November 2000
15.4 — May 2002
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
25.3 — May/June 2012
Prison Fellowship Founder Charles Colson's Final Mission for Christian Faith & Culture
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
32.6 — November/December, 2019
Stargazers' Log
Chronicling the Golden Age of Astronomy: A History of Visual Observing from Harriot to Moore
by Neil English
A review by Guillermo Gonzalez
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
32.5 — September/October, 2019
A Dual Estrangement
Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A review by James A. Altena
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