Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean?

by Suzann J. Nelson, Janet Letnes Martin, Susan L. Nelson, et al.

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886627053
• ISBN13: 9781886627055
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Martin House Publications (MN)
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Growing Up Lutheran

I 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.

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 an education about a whole bunch of us who sit quietly here in the Midwest doing what come naturally.

This is most painfully true!

This book reignited old memories of growing up in the Swedish Lutheran Church. My grandmother was a member of the legendary Martha Society and probably cooked more chicken that Perdue has ever processed. I roared with laughter over the church characters portrayed. Unfortunately they are not unique. This is a must buy!

GROWING UP LUTHERAN

This is a must read for anyone who grew up in the Lutheran Church anytime from 1940-1970. The Authors Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann (Johnson) Nelson must have walked the walk. I grew up in this period and eveything that they report is the absolute truth. I stayed in the Church mainly because of the Walther League. I went to the Conventions and eventually met my wife and we have ben happily married for 48 years. I still Usher in Church every Sunday, I plan on contacting the authors to effect a possible sequel.

This is most certainly true!

Even though I'm a couple years too late for this book, what the authors describe and write about is "most certainly true." If you grew up in an established Scandinavian or German Lutheran congregation, you'll identify with most, if not all, of this book, from your cradle roll days up until the time you're eligible to either serve at funerals or sit in the parking lot waiting for your wife to finish serving at a funeral. Highly recommended!