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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 284.173089395 EAN: 9781565119987 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 1565119983 Label: Highbridge Audio Manufacturer: Highbridge Audio Number Of Items: 3 Publication Date: June 23, 2005 Publisher: Highbridge Audio Studio: Highbridge Audio Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Right on TargetWhile the focus of the book is on Lutherans who grew up from the 40s to 60s I must confess that having grown up as the daughter of 2 Lutheran pastors, having worked at a Lutheran bible camp in college where i would go lead VBS at lutheran churches in Minnesota and having graduated from a lutheran college that it still pin points humor about the general Lutheran culture. It does not matter if you are in tune with all of the theology or church politics or not--people who both embrace and reject their ... Read More Rating: - Not quite a laugh a minute, but a good readI must confesss, which is fitting, that I grew up at the same time in the Midwest as these authors. However, my ancestors are Swedish and we lived in Iowa. You wouldn't think this would make a difference, but it does. The only thing I can say is that you had to have been there to completely understand this book. And maybe that won't do it. There was a comment somewhere that said you can't understand it unless you've had beets or Jello melt into your scalloped ... Read More Rating:  - Growing Up LutheranI am manager of a Home Health Agency. One day one of the nurses brought this tape and played it during lunch. We laughed until we cried. Especially appreciative are Lutherans or people who were brought up in Scandinavian communities. Rating: - If You Didn't . . .. . . grow up Lutheran and in the Midwest, you may not appreciate the total humor of this book, but it's still a delightfully witty, tongue-in-cheek commentary on a by-gone era. Once started, I couldn't put it down, because it called up a flood of memories, everything from Sunday School pins to Mother-Daughter banquets to cemetary upkeep. It was MY life they were talking about. For those of you who did (grow up Lutheran in the Midwest), it a journey back into time; for those of you who didn't, it's ... Read More Rating: - Grew up Lutheran.I enjoyed this book well enough to send a copy of it to my Father and an Aunt, who also grew up Lutheran. They enjoyed it, too. |
