This is Molly Hemingway of the Federalist, inviting you to join me for the 2026 Issues, Etc, Making the Case Conference, Friday, June 12th, and Saturday, June 13th at Concordia University, Chicago.

I'll be speaking and signing copies of my new book, Alito, the Justice who reshaped the Supreme Court and restored

the U.S. Constitution. Learn more at Issuesetc.org. Issuesetc.org. The kind of questions that children ask sometimes run to theologically profound.

One of them kicks off our conversation with Pastor Jonathan Connor, and it has to do really with the very heart of our scriptural Christology.

Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining it for part 55 of our series, Kids Have Questions.

Pastor Jonathan Connor, he's pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Manning, Iowa, and author of the book, Kids Have Questions.

Jonathan, welcome.

Thanks, Todd. Happy to be here.

This is from X. My son, Gus, eight years old, wanted me to ask Pastor Connor, since Jesus holds all things together,

why the world did not crumble when he died.

I tried my best to answer, and I think I did answer a while ago, but I failed to answer well enough.

We were hoping that Pastor Connor might help.

Yeah, okay.

I'm going to just start by just, I want to address Gus here.

I want to tell Gus, Gus Gus that is such a

profound question I'm going to do my best to answer it but Gus I want you to know that

you just cracked open one of the great mysteries of the faith and for all who are listening, I want you to know that I'm

going to answer this as far as I can, but I'm going to tell you right now that I'm only going to

be able to go so far, because the mysteries of God go deep. And God hasn't explained all of these mysteries to us. So we are going to have to be comfortable with that. God hasn't told us everything. He's told us the main things, right? And we're thankful for that, but not everything.

All right.

So let's start with Scripture.

So Hebrews chapter 1, verse 3 says this.

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