1. Curious about what Lutherans mean by “Two Kingdom”? In this short piece John Hoyum sums up the doctrine and some of its potential consequences.
  2. A pastor shares his own experience of loneliness and hope
  3. Confession and absolution offer more than assurance, they gift real and genuine Divine promises.
  4. Delwyn Campbell wrestles with a situation that demands love and justice
  5. Steven Paulson shares the meaning (and grace) found in All Saints Day
  6. 1517 Resources to help Celebrate Reformation Day
  7. Matthew 22 sees Jesus address Jewish legal debates. In the process, he makes disticntions between the Law and Gospel.
  8. As much as we want the glory, riches, and knowledge of Dantes, what we need is Jean Valjean's candlesticks.
  9. Attempting to escape the errors of medieval Catholic thinking, Agricola ended up making the same mistake of conflating law and gospel.
  10. We must also address the stigma surrounding addiction within so many churches.
  11. This is an excerpt from Faith in the Face of Tyranny: An Examination of the Bethel Confession Proposed by Dietrich Bonhoeffer & Hermann Sasse in August 1933, written by Torbjörn Johansson and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2023).
  12. This is an excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Let the Bird Fly: Life in a World Given Back to Us written by Wade Johnston (1517 Publishing, 2019).