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

19.10—December 2006

Enchanting Children

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

from the archives on family (113 articles)

21.8—October 2008

Weed Free

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

30.1—Jan/Feb 2017

Family Matters

Domestic Altars & Godly Offspring by Allan C. Carlson

33.3—May/June 2020

Maternity as Theophany

Maternal Body: A Theology of Incarnation from the Christian East by Carrie Frederick Frost
Fertile Ground: A Pilgrimage Through Pregnancy by Laura S. Jansson by Agnes R. Howard

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)

18.8 — October 2005

Jack Kerouac's On the Road

(See all)

The Leading Edge

by Phillip E. Johnson

on intelligent design & culture
(2001–2013)

24.6 — Nov/Dec 2011

Freed Science

15.8 — October 2002

Ethics in a Vacuum

16.1 — January/February 2003

A Step Forward in Ohio

(See all)

The Matter at Hand

by Leon J. Podles

on events of the day
(2002–2005)

15.4 — May 2002

Flying High at Trinity

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

7.3 — Summer 1994

Outside the Turmoil of Men

17.1 — January/February 2004

Earthly Cares

14.2 — March 2001

Bearing Virtue

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

15.6 — July/August 2002

Out on a Limb in Norway

An Interview with Norwegian Dissident Roald Flemestad

28.5 — Sept/Oct 2015

The Gospel Out of Egypt

Bishop Angaelos of the Coptic Orthodox Church

12.2 — March/April 1999

A Novelist Looks at Faith & Fiction

An Interview with Susan Howatch

(See all)

book reviews

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

35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

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

35.5 — Sept/Oct, 2022

Capturing Audiences
C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication by Steven Beebe
A review by Arthur W. Hunt III

35.1 — January/February, 2022

Crucial Witness
Glory Wrapped in Shame: An Exegetical Study of the Passion Narrative in the Gospel of St. John, Highlighting Its Historical and Theological Insights by Abraham Oommen
A review by John G. Panagiotou

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