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)

19.10—December 2006

Enchanting Children

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

10.4—Fall 1997

Lessons from the Nursery

The Catholic Imagination Encounters Bambi by James L. Sauer

from the archives on family (113 articles)

21.8—October 2008

Weed Free

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

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

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

Book Returns

by various authors

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

18.10 — December 2005

Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society

(See all)

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

22.2 — March 2009

Thought for Food

25.4 — July/August 2012

Out from the Ether

19.8 — October 2006

Two Men & a Maybe

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

15.10 — December 2002

Cubist Scripture

16.3 — April 2003

Choosing Truth or Power

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

16.4 — May 2003

Culture Shock

14.6 — July/August 2001

The Roaring Jesus

11.6 — November/December 1998

Rediscovering Advent

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

3.3 — Fall 1989

Hope in Haiti?

An Interview with Jean Bertrand Aristide

15.5 — June 2002

Berkeley’s Radical

An Interview with Phillip E. Johnson

24.2 — March/April 2011

Courage & Conversion

An Interview with Hadley Arkes

(See all)

book reviews

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

35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

A Reclamation
In Defense of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful: On the Loss of Transcendence and the Decline of the West by Jordan Cooper
A review by Samuel G. Parkison

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

35.4 — Jul/Aug, 2022

A Promising Dialogue
Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective edited by Bradley Nassif and Tim Grass
A review by Philip LeMasters

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