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
October 10, 2025 • 47 mins
In their latest “How to Lutheran” conversation, Rachel celebrates the ongoing legacy of quilting circles in Lutheran Churches.
Beginning with a look back at the significance of quilts and quilting bees in American history, she then explores biblical examples of women who used their skill with textile arts to help those in need. From there, the conversation examines the heyday of Lutheran quilters after the Second World War and...
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October 3, 2025 • 81 mins
“Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!” (Psalm 150:10). As we mark the beginning of the end of Ordinary Time and begin our descent toward the end of the church year, Sarah’s turning her attention to Praise and Adoration hymns in this all-new Hymn Sing episode.
Hymns featured include “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” (LSB 790), “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee” (LSB 803), “Praise God, from Whom All Ble...
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September 26, 2025 • 54 mins
Have you ever imagined becoming an international missionary? Can you think of someone in your life who would make a good missionary?
In this third International Mission 101 episode, Erin invites her colleague Anne Gonzalez to the Lounge to answer common questions about missionary recruitment.
Who is qualified to be an LCMS missionary? What mission roles are open to (and even ideally suited to) Lutheran lay women? What’s t...
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September 19, 2025 • 87 mins
The Ladies are celebrating their SIXTH ANNIVERSARY in style this week — with a potluck party for the ages.
The challenge: prepare and share at least one recipe published in a vintage (pre-A.D. 2000) church cookbook.
The result: pull up a chair, grab a fork, and find out for yourself!
From perennial favorites like broccoli salad and tater tot casserole, to neglected classics like chocolate eclair cake and corn chip taco...
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September 12, 2025 • 64 mins
“Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!” — Psalm 150:6
In this episode, Rachel embarks on a new Adventure in Lutheranism as she helps start and lead a new children’s choir at her church.
After cruising through a cursory history of children’s music in church, she invites Sarah, Erin, and her own daughter, Emalie, to share their personal stories of singing in Lutheran children’s choirs. She then rel...
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September 5, 2025 • 40 mins
For the first time ever, Erin’s asking a Big Question in the Lounge — and it’s a doozie:
Is Dungeons and Dragons actually great?
Throughout the 80s and 90s, as Erin recalls, many conservative Christians regarded the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons as “a gateway to advance along the primrose path to perdition” — something roughly in the same moral category as “cigarettes and death metal."
Now, with the r...
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August 29, 2025 • 64 mins
What are Lutherans to think about the saints? How, especially, are we to regard the most controversial saint of all — Mary, the Mother of Jesus?
In this Kitchen Table Talk episode, aired in honor of Mary’s commemoration on August 15, Sarah, Erin, and Rachel welcome the Rev. William Weedon to talk through pressing questions about whether and how we can faithfully and appropriately celebrate the saints of God.
What actually...
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August 22, 2025 • 42 mins
This riveting episode from August 2024 celebrates America's love of corn culture, so the Ladies wanted to share it again.
Q: Why shouldn’t you tell secrets in a cornfield?
A: Because the corn has ears!
It’s a “cornival” of craziness as Erin leads Sarah and Rachel in an Iron Ladle Challenge celebrating the joys of “corn culture” (or “corny culture”) in midsummer.
After discussing results from a pair of lively liste...
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August 15, 2025 • 48 mins
Class is back in session, Ladies — one more time (for now)!
Sarah wraps up her studies at Concordia University Irvine’s Townsend Institute for Counseling and Leadership as she revisits her capstone project on humor in the workplace and celebrates the completion of her M.A. in organizational leadership. She also gives Erin and Rachel an eye-opening crash course in different types of humor and how they contribute (or don’t) to wo...
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August 8, 2025 • 59 mins
It’s a story of joyful mission service with two LCMS Lutheran Lady Missionaries! In this delightful conversation (recorded in person at the LWML Convention in Omaha), the Ladies welcome Deaconess Carol Halter, the LCMS’s longest-serving missionary, and Chelsea Irwin, one of the youngest LCMS missionaries, to share their stories of serving as international missionaries.
Did they always want to serve overseas? What do they actua...
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August 1, 2025 • 60 mins
In this joy-filled conversation (recorded in person at the LWML Convention in Omaha), the Ladies welcome “leading lady” Donna Snow to Lounge, as they continue celebrating and learning from Lutheran women in positions of influence in the church and around the world.
Donna Snow is founder and CEO of Artesian Ministries, an organization dedicated to equipping disciples to share Jesus by becoming biblically literate. She’s also a s...
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July 25, 2025 • 40 mins
Inspired by the LCMS Youth Gathering, the Ladies round the homestretch with part three of their summer series celebrating young Lutheran ladies.
In this eye-opening multicultural International Mission 101 conversation, Sarah, Erin, and Rachel welcome to the Lounge missionary teens Bella (daughter of the Rev. Dr. J.P. and Aimee Cima, serving in Cambodia) and Lydia (daughter of the Rev. Dr. Carl and Chenhsi Hanson, serving in S...
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July 18, 2025 • 44 mins
Inspired by the LCMS Youth Gathering, the Ladies embark on part two of a three-part summer series celebrating young Lutheran ladies.
In this inspiring conversation, the Leading Ladies series gets aged way down, as Sarah, Erin, and Rachel welcome LCMS YouthLead executive team and participants Reagan, Ava, and Lucy to the Lounge to share their stories and perspectives on leadership.
How did these audacious young women first...
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July 11, 2025 • 57 mins
Inspired by the LCMS Youth Gathering, the Ladies embark on a three-part summer series celebrating young Lutheran ladies. It’s “bring a teen to Book Club” day in the Lounge!
Lutheran lady teenagers Lorraine, Janice, and Eva stop by for a book club recap episode, joining Sarah, Erin, and Rachel as they talk through questions raised by E. Jane Mall’s cozy Lutheran classic Kitty, My Rib.
What did our teenage readers think of Ma...
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July 4, 2025 • 63 mins
The Ladies are celebrating our nation's birthday on July 4 by revisiting a favorite episode from 2022 all about hymns for the nation.
Hymns for the Nation, or Patriotic Songs? Or both? As Americans are celebrating Independence Day, Lutherans once again consider the worth of hymns and songs that focus on God’s gift of land and government. Within the context of our Two Realms (or Two Kingdoms) theology, Sarah considers the hymns f...
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June 27, 2025 • 32 mins
[Enter Sarah]: “All right! Here we go! Time to record our 300th episode. Open up the studio. Turn on the mics... Wait a sec. Where’s Rachel? For that matter, where’s Erin? Where are my fellow Lutheran Ladies? My sisters in Christ? Something is definitely fishy here.”
What happens when Erin and Rachel are late to a podcast recording session and Katharine Von Bora shows up instead — in her very own, state-of-the-art herring barre...
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June 20, 2025 • 52 mins
The word “heretic” gets bandied about online so much these days that it has become almost meaningless, but it remains an important theological concept with serious implications for the life of the church.
In this unexpectedly sobering Trivia Challenge, Rachel quizzes Erin and Sarah on the meanings and history of major heresies in the church, from Gnosticism to modernism and beyond.
What even is “heresy,” anyway? Where is h...
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June 13, 2025 • 28 mins
The sun is out, boats are on the water, fish are jumping, and the beach is calling. It’s the perfect time to revisit one of the Bible’s most memorable water-based narratives: the story of Jonah.
Welcoming former co-host Bri Gerzevske back once again for another hilarious installment of Bri’s Radio Theatre, Sarah, Erin, and Rachel are jumping feet-first with her into the briny deep.
How will Captain Trish handle the runawa...
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June 6, 2025 • 49 mins
A blessed Pentecost to all! To mark the feasts of Pentecost and Trinity Sunday, Sarah’s digging into a dozen hymns associated with these holy days in a brand-new Hymn Sing episode.
Hymns featured include fan favorites “Holy, Holy, Holy” (LSB 507), “Holy Spirit, Light Divine” (LSB 496), and “Glory Be to God the Father” (LSB 506), together with lesser-known classics like “Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest” (LSB 498/499), “O Day Ful...
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May 30, 2025 • 52 mins
As the weather warms up and the sun grows brighter and hotter, Rachel’s taking the opportunity to ask a big question that turns out to be just a little more controversial than one might expect:
Should I line dry my clothes?
Beginning with a quick survey of the history of laundry drying techniques and traditions, Rachel then looks how and why American housewives made the transition from “drying greens” and clotheslines to g...
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