Here is a letter written to churches like ours, about a time such as ours. Peter’s first letter is one we need to read, treasure and believe in our day, because the post-Christian societies many of us live in now are very much like the pre-Christian society in which Peter’s first-century readers lived then. Here is a letter for today. Like the Christians in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) to whom Peter was writing, most of us don’t face universal, state-sponsored persecution