Richard John Neuhaus has died. His book The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America had a formative influence on me years ago, his involvement with Chuck Colson in Evangelicals and Catholics Together was historic, and his journal First Things remains vital. In recent years I’ve become more critical of the neoconservatism that Neuhaus represented, but all of us who think and write and act on the role of faith in public life today owe him a debt of gratitude. RIP.
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