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

Will All Be Saved?

by Richard John Neuhaus

The question of universalism—whether all will, in the end, be saved—is perennially agitated in the Christian tradition. A notable proponent of that view was the great Origen, who, in the third century, set forth a theologically and philosophically complex doctrine of “Apocatastasis” . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2001

The Religious Right as Terrible Threat, Utter Irrelevance, or Something Else

by Richard John Neuhaus

The cover of the New Republic picture this big thick book titled The Constitution of the United States. The real Constitution makes a very thin pamphlet, but with all that some folk have discovered in the Constitution in recent decades, maybe it looks to them like a big thick book. Anyway, the book . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 1994

The Innovationist Edge

by Richard John Neuhaus

Civilization, it has been observed, depends upon obedience to the unenforceable. Similarly, it depends upon the observance of the unexamined. The Lutheran ethicist Gilbert Meilaender once wrote a brilliant essay titled “The Examined Life Is Not Worth Living” (in The Theory and Practice of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1992

Who You Are

by Richard John Neuhaus

After two full years of publication, we thought it time to survey our subscribers and the findings are now in. Of course such a survey cannot tell us who you are in all your irreducible uniqueness, but it does offer a profile of subscribers to First Things. We thought you might be as interested in . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1992

Feminism and Feminism

by Richard John Neuhaus

We get these letters saying that we should not refer to “radical feminism” since all feminism is radical. Not quite. We refer such readers to “The Feminist Revelation” (December 1991), where we noted Christina Sommers’ useful distinction between “liberal feminism” and “gender . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1992

Can Atheists Be Good Citizens?

by Richard John Neuhaus

Those who were once called atheists are now the most reliable defenders not of the gods but of the good reasons for this regime of ordered liberty. Such people are the best citizens not despite but because their loyalty to the civitas is qualified by a higher loyalty. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 1991

The Christian West?

by Wolfhart Pannenberg

Richard John Neuhaus: 1992 is scheduled to he a very big year for moving toward European unity. Specifics will be changed as a result of the Revolution of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe, and especially in light of German reunification, but the continuing move toward European unity seems to be . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 1990