1. Faith, for Peter, is not suspended in religious abstraction. It is tied to something that happened in time and space.
  2. Baptism does not promise us chocolates or flowers, but something far greater: life in Christ.
  3. The Promised Land invites us to laugh at how relatable it is to be exhausted and exasperated by all the people, and the egos and opinions they bring with them, that come with living.
  4. Christians can pursue projects of justice free of the burden of being the justifier of the world; that office belongs to Christ and Christ alone.
  5. When Dostoevsky died on February 9, 1881, he left behind novels that refuse to flatter the reader or simplify the human condition.

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