The Lutheran Ladies' Lounge from KFUO Radio
Have you scrolled through your podcasts, searching for one that catches your ear - a place you can escape to with inviting conversations, laughter, and fellowship with your Lutheran sisters? Look no further! Join Sarah, Erin, Rachel, and Bri on the sofa in the Lutheran Ladies Lounge, a podcast oasis for you, dear sisters, to sit, rest your feet, and stay a while. And on the way out, we’ll check your lipstick. The Lutheran Ladies Lounge is produced by KFUO Radio and available wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
April 26, 2024 • 59 mins
In this Lutheran Ladies’ Book Club recap episode, Rachel leads Sarah and Erin in a highly anticipated conversation on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
How does Alcott’s cast of sisters offer a range of imaginative options for understanding virtuous womanhood? What are we to make of artsy-but-annoying Amy and tomboy Jo? Despite its being filled with religious themes and moral platitudes, can we call this a Christian book? How...
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April 19, 2024 • 50 mins
Following up on last year’s Baptism party episode, the Ladies are once again forming a Party-Planning Committee — and this time, they’re tackling confirmation.
In this three-segment Sharathon episode, the Ladies provide friendly advice to anyone hosting a confirmation party. Erin (recipe subcommittee) starts things off with an Apostles’ Creed-themed menu, featuring gingerbread, Braunschweiger (a “lost and condemned food”), and...
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April 12, 2024 • 69 mins
We’re back in class, ladies!
Once again, Sarah’s sharing study notes from her graduate courses at Concordia University Irvine’s Townsend Institute for Counseling and Leadership. In this insightful episode, she covers:
How great teamwork skills relate to the Body of Christ
Pat Lencioni’s Working Genius model for productivity
How a productivity model applies to everything from marriage, to church council, to homeschool co...
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April 5, 2024 • 40 mins
It’s a HAM-ERGENCY!
Easter Sunday is over and done — but what's a Lutheran lady to do with all that leftover ham?
In this Iron Ladle Challenge, Sarah, Erin, and Rachel (together with dozens of ladies from the Lutheran Ladies Lounge Facebook group) are coming to the rescue, with a smorgasbord of recipe ideas all involving ham.
Will you use your leftover ham in savory Cuban sandwiches? Fluffy crustless quiche? Hawaiian-...
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March 29, 2024 • 38 mins
As an aid to Good Friday meditation and devotion, the Ladies once again welcome listener contributions in a new “Write This:” creative challenge, this time inviting their fellow Lutheran ladies to compose additional stanzas to the beloved Passion hymn “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded.”
Beginning with a brief account of how the hymn came to be and its connection to the Lutheran worship tradition, Sarah, Erin, and Rachel then read and...
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March 22, 2024 • 22 mins
Justine Siegemund (born Justine Diettrich; 26 December 1636 – 10 November 1705) was a groundbreaking midwife whose illustrated medical book The Court Midwife (1690), was the first German medical text authored by a woman.
In this episode, Sarah tells her story.
Born in Silesia as the daughter of Lutheran minister, Justine married age 19 but was unable to bear children. Her own struggles with infertility and a prolapsed uter...
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March 15, 2024 • 54 mins
This week, the Ladies are rolling out a brand-new interview series: Mother + Daughter. Each of these conversations will feature a different pair of Lutheran women who are joined not only by the closest bonds of kinship but also by the fellowship they share as Lutheran sisters in Christ.
In the first of these conversations, we welcome Cheryl and Caitlin Magness.
Cheryl Magness is managing editor of Reporter, the official ne...
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March 8, 2024 • 49 mins
This week, the Ladies are reviving an old segment from the early days of the show: “How to Lutheran,” an exploration of distinctive aspects of Lutheran life that are so familiar as to be almost unnoticed. This week, Rachel’s looking at table prayers: Why do we say them? Which ones do we pray? What’s so distinctively Lutheran about the way Lutherans say grace? And what’s so “common” about the so-called “Common Table Prayer.”
“It...
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March 1, 2024 • 55 mins
Unsurprisingly, Lutheran Service Book contains a substantial collection of “Trust” hymns — and also unsurprisingly, many of those hymns are dearly loved by Lutheran ladies.
In this Hymn Sing with Sarah episode, Sarah tells the stories of over a dozen different trust-based hymns, a list informed by listener polls conducted earlier in the Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge Facebook discussion group.
Lyrics featured include “Lord, Thee...
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February 23, 2024 • 80 mins
The Rev. Dr. John Kleinig is emeritus lecturer at Luther College, Adelaide, South Australia, and author of several books on Lutheran theology and spirituality, including Grace upon Grace, Wonderfully Made, and the volume on Prayer in the Lutheran Spirituality Series. In this warm and pastoral Kitchen Table Talk conversation, Dr. Kleinig answers vital questions on prayer from a biblical Lutheran perspective.
What is prayer? Wh...
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February 16, 2024 • 46 mins
How much do you know about Valentine’s Day? In her latest trivia challenge, Rachel’s quizzing the Ladies on the holiday that everyone seems to love (or hate, or not actually care about ... as Rachel says, “There are only really three options.”).
Was Saint Valentine real? What’s his story? Is it romantic? If now, where did all the lovey-dovey stuff come from? (Hint: the answer will probably surprise you.) And what, exactly, do p...
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February 9, 2024 • 27 mins
On February 9, 2024, people across the nation are celebrating their love of the pizza pie on National Pizza Day. In light of this tasty festival, Sarah is asking the Big Question:
Does pineapple belong on pizza?
Taking the opportunity to share her love of Detroit-style pizza (and why it's the best, in her opinion), Sarah then takes the ladies through the history of Hawaiian pizza, why she thinks pineapple does belong on piz...
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February 2, 2024 • 43 mins
It’s an Iron-Ladle Challenge, and this time, the Ladies are tackling budget-friendly recipes.
The rules are simple:
Make a balanced meal that you and your family will actually eat.
Spend as little money as possible.
Pantry items* are freebies.
*Shelf-stable foodstuffs that you buy in bulk and regularly keep on hand.
Will Sarah, Erin, and Rachel each rise to the creative challenge and bring a healthy, tasty...
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January 26, 2024 • 79 mins
Dr. Erik Ankerberg joins Sarah, Erin, and Rachel to discuss the latest Lutheran Ladies’ Book Club pick: George Herbert’s The Temple.
An expert on Herbert’s poetry (as well as a longtime fan), Dr. Ankerberg shares a depth of insight as he helps the Ladies unpack this beautiful but obscure volume of devotional verse.
Who was George Herbert? To what extent was his Anglican faith influenced by Lutheran theology? What makes his po...
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January 19, 2024 • 60 mins
Thinking caps on, ladies! Class is in session!
Once again, Sarah’s sharing study notes from her graduate courses at Concordia University Irvine’s Townsend Institute for Counseling and Leadership. In this stimulating episode, she covers:
Macro cultures and their effect on organizations and communities
The value of articulating personal values, mission, and vision statements
A helpful model for engaging in difficult conve...
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January 12, 2024 • 73 mins
Amy Scholz is director of church and donor relations for Lutheran Braille Workers. She’s also an LCMS pastor’s wife, a fellow Lutheran lady, and a veteran family caregiver, having walked alongside both her father and her husband as they navigated serious health conditions decades apart.
In this One-Question Interview, Amy joins the Ladies to share her story and talk frankly about caregiving. How does God prepare his servants (...
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January 5, 2024 • 54 mins
Happy Epiphany from the Lutheran Ladies! To celebrate the day, we’re rebroadcasting one of Sarah’s favorite Hymn Sing episodes.
Sarah begins this deep dive into favorite Epiphany hymns with the so-called “Queen of Chorales,” Philipp Nicolai’s “O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright” (LSB 395). She then digs into the stories behind other beloved lyrics, including “Brightest and Best of the Stars of the Morning” (LSB 400), “As with...
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December 29, 2023 • 41 mins
As they have for the past three years, Sarah, Erin, and Rachel are offering blessings, wishes, and prognostications for the New Year.
After revisiting last year’s prognostications to see if any came true (spoiler alert: NO), each of the Lutheran Ladies presents a good wish, a word of blessing, and a wild-and-crazy prediction for what life will hold in 2024.
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December 22, 2023 • 20 mins
“Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the Lounge – not a creature was stirring, not even a…uh. Nothing really rhymes with ‘lounge,’ here. Sorry, guys, that's unfortunate. ...”
Former co-host Bri Gerzevske revisits the podcast for a hilarious Bri’s Radio Theatre Christmas Special in this festive episode filled with laughter, cookies, and Martin Luther himself.
Part homage to Clement C. Moore’s “A Visit to Saint Nic...
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December 15, 2023 • 56 mins
In honor of the Christmas season, the Ladies are welcoming listener contributions to a new “Write This:” creative challenge, this time featuring original Christmas carol lyrics to familiar tunes.
What makes a Christmas carol different from a Christmas hymn? Can you set a Christmas hymn to the tune of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer”? Why are timeless and original Christmas carol lyrics SO HARD to write? And which intrepid Lut...
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