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    Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean?
    Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean?
    Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean?
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean?

    Written by Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann (Johnson) Nelson

    Narrated by Janet Martin and Suzann Nelson

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    About this audiobook

    If you search for the word "coffee" in the Bible, if you're pretty sure that all the pairs of animals in Noah's Ark were married, and if you know that Heaven is up and Hell is down, you'll love Growing Up Lutheran. If the Lutherans you know seem rather, er, mysterious, it will do you good.

    Combining their own memories with those of other Lutherans who grew up in the 1940s through the 1960s, Janet and Suzann have written a delightful expose of what it means to be Lutheran and how it's done. Endearing, often hilarious stories shine a light on Lutheran life from baptism ("And His Name Shall Be Called Gilman Einar Stedje") to death ("He Is Not Gone, He Is Only Away"). In between, you'll learn about Sunday School, Christmas pageants (a.k.a. "bathrobe pageants"), Bible Camp, Confirmation, and Lutheran weddings. You'll get the inside scoop on the Lutheran Church Basement Women ("a special species of people"), lutefisk suppers, pew protocol, church architecture, and much more.

    In the words of the authors, Growing Up Lutheran is "a mixture of ingredients that we had on hand, generously salted . . . With gentle humor, and lightly peppered . . . with quite a few hot granules of Lutheran theology." This is most certainly true.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJun 2, 2005
    ISBN9781598872613
    Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean?

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      I had so much fun listening to this wonderful book
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      OK, this should really be called "Growing Up Scandinavian-Lutheran in the Rural Mid-West During the 1940's Through 1960's" as it mostly focuses on the variety of Lutheranism which fits that description. There are token mentions of German Lutherans (usually poking fun at them) and a few observations about changes since that time, but it is rooted in that general vicinity of time and space and ethnicity.Mind you, I didn't grow up Lutheran, and my adult exposure to Lutheranism (with a 1-year exception) has mostly been since the mid-1980's among congregations of German background closer to the east coast, but I've heard stories. So I think this is pretty on-target for the sub-group of Lutherans upon which it focuses. Certainly some of it pertains to Lutherans of the era in general, and a bit carries over into churches I've known.This is not great writing. It's gentle, homespun humor with lots of "in" jokes and satire. It includes lots of period photos, and such novelties as: Sunday bulletin excerpts; hymn titles with the page numbers from three different Lutheran hymnals included; church cemetery diagrams and satirical "examples" of cemetery association minutes, etc. I needed a dose of gentle humor, and this worked well enough for my purposes. Recommended only for those with an affinity for the subject matter.