Sublime

(John 17:20–26;

At death you won’t leave home — you’ll go home.

When God is big and we are small, we don’t need to wear ourselves out on the treadmill of self-righteous reputation.

Solomon,

euphemistically

in place of the radical, upside-down values of God’s kingdom.

The reality is that, as Anderson is able to reveal from that fabled other side, there is no promised land until the Promised Land of the real heaven. We always think things will finally be . . . well, final when we get “there,” wherever “there” is for us. But there is no there. There’s only here. Because once you get there, there becomes here, and

moral law

test.