september / october

Beyond Belief

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Beyond Belief

Literary Reflections on Thoughtless Conformity by Gary Saul Morson

 Compelling Art

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Compelling Art

In Search of the Baptism of the Imagination by Wilfred M. McClay

Very Religious

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

“Very Religious”

How to Regard a New Term of Belittlement by J. Douglas Johnson

Adagio for Joseph

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Adagio for Joseph

Alexander T. Riley on Rediscovering David Lynch’s Elephant Man

Contradictory Man

38:5 — sept/oct 2025

Contradictory Man

The Sobering Lessons of Dr. Jekyll & Dorian Gray by Louis A. Markos

conference videos (see all)

America After Christianity

September 27, 2024

Neopaganism's Dark Enchantment

—John Daniel Davidson

September 28, 2024

The Urgency of Wonder

—Rod Dreher

September 26, 2024

Principles for Living in the Negative World

—Aaron Renn

from the archives on philosophy (75 articles)

25.6—Nov/Dec 2012

Clashing Symbols

The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences by Peter Kreeft

16.4—May 2003

Common Sense

Chesterton & the Aristotelian Tradition by Patrick Henry Reardon

from the archives on culture (292 articles)

31.6—November/December 2018

Virtue Gone Mad

Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source by Michael P. Foley

20.7—September 2007

Retaking Mars Hill

Paul Didn’t Build Bridges to Popular Culture by Russell D. Moore

29.3—May/June 2016

The Master's Voice

Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ by Anthony Esolen

current columns

Illuminations

by Anthony Esolen

on Christian hymns

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Hymns of Creation

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Forgotten Mode

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

A Threefold Cord

(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

(See all)

First Books

by Kathie Johnson

on books for children

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Reading About the Holocaust

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

North/Central Europe—Fiction

38.1 — Jan/Feb 2025

North-Central Europe

(See all)

Mortal Remains

by S. M. Hutchens

on theology and culture

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

Vanity & the Work of the Cobbler

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

The Three Tests

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

On Living in Wonder

(See all)

As It Is Written . . .

by Patrick Henry Reardon

on the bible and theology

38.5 — Sept/Oct 2025

A Persian Parody

38.4 — Jul/Aug 2025

Second Thoughts on Saul

38.3 — May/Jun 2025

All Their Cosmos

(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)

23.2 — March/April 2010

Atheist Crusaders

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)

16.3 — April 2003

Choosing Truth or Power

(See all)

Practical Christianity

by Thomas S. Buchanan

pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)

16.2 — March 2003

Unmoored Sticks

14.3 — April 2001

The Ever-Changing Scandal

9.2 — Spring 1996

How They Love One Another

(See all)

Interviews

by various authors

Touchstone interviews with persons of interest

15.5 — June 2002

Berkeley’s Radical

An Interview with Phillip E. Johnson

37.5 — Sept/Oct 2024

A Faithful Knowledge

A Conversation with Stephen C. Meyer

15.10 — December 2002

Pondering Anglican Woes

An Interview with J. I. Packer

(See all)

book reviews

35.3 — May/Jun, 2022

Uppercut
Jesuit at Large: Essays and Reviews by Paul V. Mankowski, S.J.
edited with an introduction by George Weigel

A review by John M. Vella

35.2 — Mar/Apr, 2022

Revelatory Science
Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
A review by Neil English

35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022

Points of Contact
The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church by Bradley Nassif
A review by Louis Markos

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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