Justin Lee

Being a committed reader of First Things is a social, intellectual, and spiritual discipline that bears tremendous fruit. Continue Reading »

The political has returned with a vengeance. And those who continue to mistake the third way for a universal doctrine are at risk of sleepwalking into political idolatry that insists upon a paradoxically post-political ideology. Continue Reading »

For many Christians, the perennial temptation to immanentize the eschaton has become so familiar it is often invisible. In Midnight Mass, the trope of vampirism splashes that invisible temptation with vivid blood, and we are reminded that chiliastic labor only builds kingdoms of hell. Continue Reading »

On at least two occasions, my father found himself in public showdowns with Mad Max, an itinerant “Turn or Burn!” preacher who loved to make a spectacle of himself on college campuses by fulminating over Led Zeppelin T-shirts (“Satanists!”), women in shorts (“Whores!”) and men with their . . . . Continue Reading »

Francis Collins is a brother in Christ and his accomplishments are undeniable. He is nonetheless a tragic figure, and his career a cautionary tale. Continue Reading »

Critics who bemoan the film’s departures from its source material misapprehend the nature of adaptation, which requires interpreting and resituating a work of art. Continue Reading »

The new religions practiced in post-secular America are selfish, choice-obsessed, therapeutic, and adaptable to expediency. Continue Reading »

According to the logic of Germany's highest court, the imprisonment of Armin Meiwes for the consensual killing of Bernd-Jürgen Brandes is a grave injustice.  Continue Reading »

This Present Darkness by frank e. peretti crossway, 375 pages, $14.99 As a teenager, I was convinced that a spirit of false prophecy had attached itself to my neck. This spirit’s name—according to one of our youth group leaders—was Python, after the ­Pythia, or Oracle of Delphi. I did . . . . Continue Reading »

Persons ripe for possession lack a proper telos. Continue Reading »