The opportunity in the Pentagon’s about-face on Latter-day Saints and Christianity – Deseret News

“It’s long past time for Latter-day Saint Christians and Nicene Christians to begin talking respectfully with one another.”

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2026/06/11/pentagon-religious-affiliation-latter-day-saints-mormons-christianity/

Millet: I remember meeting Richard John Neuhaus after he wrote “Catholic Matters,” and after a delightful, hourlong conversation, he said, “It’s long past time for Latter-day Saint Christians and Nicene Christians to begin talking respectfully with one another.”

I don’t have a problem with that definition at all.

Today, it seems like the conversation no longer is about, “Are you a follower of Jesus?”
or “Do you think you ought to live your life like a Christian, like a follower of Jesus?” Instead, some are too prone to say, “Do your beliefs sit with the post-New Testament creeds?”

Former Fuller Theological Seminary President Richard Mouw (who apologized to Latter-day Saints at the Salt Lake Tabernacle in 2004 for how they’d been treated by some of his fellow evangelicals) once put his arm around me during an event at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and said to the audience, “There’s no question in my mind whatsoever that this man is a brother in Christ.”

At the time of his death in 2009, Richard John Neuhaus had been a public figure for nearly four decades. To admirers and friends, he was arguably the most influential American Christian intellectual since Reinhold Niebuhr or John Courtney Murray. The New York Times described him as a "theologian who transformed himself from a liberal Lutheran leader of the civil rights and anti-war struggles in the 1960s to a Roman Catholic beacon of the neoconservative movement of today." 

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-liberalism-of-richard-john-neuhaus