The Cross and the Astronaut
By Sam P. Schuldheisz
05/08/26
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The Cross and the Astronaut

The heavens are neither geocentric, nor even heliocentric, but Christocentric. It is the cross and the crucified and risen Jesus who has the whole world, and each of us, in his nail scarred hands.
Thornton Wilder and The Problem of Death
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1517 Guest Contributor
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Thornton Wilder and The Problem of Death

Humanity, despite our best efforts, cannot answer the question as to why God allows evil to occur.
Mother as Theologian of the Home
Scott Keith
Scott Keith
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Mother as Theologian of the Home

This is an excerpt from the Chapter 7 of Being Family by Scott Keith (1517 Publishing, 2026), pgs 72-74.

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Repentance According to the Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:14

We cannot scan any random passage of Scripture and automatically assume the words are unconditionally addressed to us. Often, very often, they are not.
Steven A. Hein
Steven A. Hein
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Surveying Our Soiled Condition, and the Condition of our Soil

Ash Wednesday, is meant to remind us we have a death problem. All living things made from the soil shall return to it.
John Bombaro
John Bombaro
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To Lent or Not to Lent

The season of Lent gives almost unparalleled opportunity for preachers to placard before their auditors the Cross of Christ and beckon Christians to take up their cross and follow Him.
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
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Gospel: Mark 1:9-15 (Lent 1: Series B)

This forty-day season of preparation for Easter is an opportunity for the people of God to rededicate themselves to hearing and responding to Jesus’ call to repent.
Luke Kjolhaug
Luke Kjolhaug
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A Different Kind of Word

Since the law is our mother-tongue, we naturally assume it’s the only language that exists; this ceaseless, damning voice reminding us that we are not all that we should be.
Haroldo Camacho
Haroldo Camacho
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Revisiting Our Father

Our prayer confesses that God’s abode is beyond us, yet ever so near for the prayer presupposes that we are being heard, even in our sighs and whispers.
Ken Sundet Jones
Ken Sundet Jones
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A Q&A with Ken Sundet Jones on "A Lutheran Toolkit"

"A Lutheran Toolkit" is available for purchase today from 1517 Publishing
Peter Nafzger
Peter Nafzger
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Gospel: Mark 9:2-9 (Transfiguration: Series B)

It is hard to see clearly these days. While we have never been able to see as much as we would like, today we are more aware of our inability to perceive things as they really are.
Bruce Hillman
Bruce Hillman
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Mountaintop Words

God is not what we experience him to be, what our emotions narrate him to be, or what our intuition thinks he might be. God is what and who he says he is.
Rick Ritchie
Rick Ritchie
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Spell

Bonhoeffer was in the unenviable position of trying to break a spell. The spell was the Nazi crisis, where the totalitarian state threatened the church, and yet to many, seemed to be saving the culture and nation from mortal dangers.
Katie Koplin
Katie Koplin
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What Do I Have to Give?

Regardless of my experience, my talents, or even my mood, it’s these gifts of Christ that I have to give away. They are all I have, and they are everything.
Donavon Riley
Donavon Riley
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A Christian is Pulled Between Two Extremes

Our anxiety about the future is a consequence of our old self’s attempts to achieve freedom for himself apart from Christ Jesus.
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