january/february

Free Love & Its Votaries

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

Free Love & Its Votaries

The Nineteenth-Century Roots of America’s War on Marriage
by Alexander T. Riley

America vs. Europe

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

America vs. Europe

Two Roads to Totalitarianism
by Carlo Lancellotti

What Was I Made For?

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

What Was I Made For?

Keith Lowery on How My Wedding Vows Saved My Life

How Green Was Our Valley

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

How Green Was Our Valley

A Model for Sex Educators
by Peter Maurice

Elder Vintage

38:1 — jan/feb 2025

Elder Vintage

David Mills on Aging, Preaching & Writing Wisely

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)

18.4—May 2005

Of Weeds & Fairy Tales

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

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 (113 articles)

36.1—Jan/Feb 2023

Contraceptive Cons

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

28.2—March/April 2015

As Goes Sweden

Neo-Pagan Family Policies Doom Any Recovery by Allan C. Carlson

34.1—January/February 2021

Whose Wife Shall She Be?

Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage by James Ware

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

To the Heart of Specificity

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Cool of the Evening

(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

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Literacy Through Animal Stories

37.3 — May/June 2024

More on the Far East

(See all)

Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Language Notes

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Out of the Depth

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

Insidious Winsomeness

(See all)

As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

Artisans of the Spirit

37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024

Family Man

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

The Scriptures’ Greek Nuance

(See all)

past columns

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

14.10 — December 2001

Back Home in Mitford

16.2 — March 2003

Scouts & God

20.8 — October 2007

Permutations of Evolution

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

17.7 — September 2004

Literary Revelation

15.6 — July/August 2002

Love for the Fatherland

15.10 — December 2002

Cubist Scripture

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

17.9 — November 2004

Springs Eternal

12.2 — March/April 1999

Of Donkeys & Lampholders

13.6 — July/August 2000

Men in Full

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

13.1 — January/February 2000

A Double Take on Early Christianity

An Interview with Rodney Stark

14.4 — May 2001

Latvia Revived

Archbishop Janis Vanags on Finding & Keeping the Faith in Post-Soviet Latvia

24.2 — March/April 2011

Courage & Conversion

An Interview with Hadley Arkes

(See all)

book reviews

35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

A Retrieval
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari
A review by John M. Vella

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

The Last Cavalier Poet
Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose edited by Robert Asch
A review by André Gushurst-Moore

35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022

A Pastor & a Poet
David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms by Malcolm Guite
A review by Thomas Banks

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