january/february
38:1 — jan/feb 2025
The Nineteenth-Century Roots of America’s War on Marriage
by Alexander T. Riley
conference videos (see all)
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
from the archives on family (113 articles)
36.1—Jan/Feb 2023
A History of the Protestant Debate over Contraception by James A. Altena
23.1—January/February 2010
It’s Bent on Bringing Down the House on the Family & the Church by Douglas Farrow
24.4—July/August 2011
The Cultural Marxists’ Strategic Assault on Religion, Life & Family by Patrick F. Fagan
current columns
From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024
37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024
on works of Christian art
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024
37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024
on books for children
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024
37.3 — May/June 2024
As It Is Written . . .
on the bible and theology
38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025
37.6 — Nov/Dec 2024
37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024
past columns
Book Returns
Touchstone looks back at recent "classics"
(2005-2009)
19.9 — November 2006
19.10 — December 2006
18.10 — December 2005
The Leading Edge
on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)
23.4 — July/August 2010
19.8 — October 2006
17.2 — March 2004
Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
26.2 — Mar/Apr 2013
27.2 — March/April 2014
Calvin Stapert's A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
24.1 — January/February 2011
James Turner's Without God, Without Creed: The Origins of Unbelief in America
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
(2002–2005)
15.8 — October 2002
16.5 — June 2003
16.4 — May 2003
Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
15.9 — November 2002
6.1 — Winter 1993
12.1 — January/February 1999
Interviews
Touchstone interviews with persons of interest
13.6 — July/August 2000
Life as an Orthodox Churchman in the Church of Sweden: An interview with Dag Sandahl
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
Progressively Stoic
Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition by Lisa Hill and Eden Blazejak
A review by Max Longley
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
35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
The Last Cavalier Poet
Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose edited by Robert Asch
A review by André Gushurst-Moore
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