We’re Gonna Turn This Around

by Peter L. Berger

Peter Berger recounts his lifelong friendship with Richard . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2009

My Brother in Christ

by Charles W. Colson

I was out of the country when I received the news that Richard John Neuhaus had died, and to my everlasting regret, I could not get back for the funeral. I felt the strangest sense of loss. Not only did we lose one of the great warriors in the battle between the culture of life and the culture of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2009

He Threw It All Away

by Robert P. George

Neuhaus’s profound commitment to the sanctity of human life in all stages and conditions placed him on a different path, one that led him out of the liberal fold and into intense opposition. Continue Reading »

20 Mar 2009

While Europe Slept

by Jean Bethke Elshtain

A culture must believe in its own enculturating responsibility and mission. This a post-Christian Europe cannot . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2009

Biotech: What to Expect

by Yuval Levin

Over the past fifteen years, the pro-life movement has succeeded in enacting some modest limitations on embryo-destructive research. Passage of these depended heavily on Republican control of the Congress, and their defense in the past eight years depended heavily on a Republican president willing . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2009

Happy Birthday to Lincoln

by Ivan Kenneally

Here is a short excerpt of an address I’ll be delivering at Geneseo College devoted to Lincoln’s Bicentennial: Of course, the occasion for my lecture today is the Bicentennial celebration of Abraham’s Lincoln’s birth. It’s worth noting that today is also the bicentennial . . . . Continue Reading »

12 Feb 2009

The Anglicans in Egypt: A Deeper Communion

by Jordan Hylden

“Are we a global church, or are we a federation of local bodies?” At the close of last week’s meeting of the Anglican primates in Egypt, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams thus set forth the great looming question that Anglicanism has been asking itself for the last . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Feb 2009

The Persistence of the Catholic Moment

by Richard John Neuhaus

This essay by Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away January 8, 2009 , was originally printed in the February 2003 issue of First Things .In 1987, while I was still a Lutheran, I published a book titled The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World . There I argued that the . . . . Continue Reading »

16 Jan 2009

Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009)

by Patrick J. Deneen

Especially in his classic 1984 work The Naked Public Square , Neuhaus tackled important and still timely issues regarding the religious underpinnings of American life, the proper division between church and state, and the real meaning of American secularism. Insofar as these studies forced him to . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Jan 2009

O Death, Where Is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?

by R. R. Reno

Nothing to Be Frightened Of by julian barnesknopf, 256 pages, $24.95 Death has many masks. He comes cruel with his sweeping scythe, cutting down men and women in their prime. He comes kind and compassionate as a nurse, closing the eyes of long-suffering patients. Death comes slowly and shyly behind . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2009