something i've held sacred and true as gospel my entire life is starting to be questioned. could it be that Mr. Keillor, long thought by me to be Lutheran, is in fact of the Episcopal faith?!?! how...can...this...be? i think a part of me may have died with this discovery...
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
There's a reason why libraries filed Keillor's "Lake Woebegon" books in the fiction section...the stuff is only semi-autobiographical, and in fact is largely invented.
In his radio monologues, while he's talked about the Lutherans a lot, it's mainly been about fictional Lutherans. I don't recall him ever identifying himself as one in real life.
[ February 04, 2005, 10:52 AM: Message edited by: Puffy Treat ]
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
oh, im aware his stories are just that, stories, but i'd always embraced him as one of my own. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will fight this claim with my life.
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Culturally speaking, pretty much everyone in small town Minnesota is a Lutheran. Even the Episcopalians.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Of course, in the books and monologues, he says he grew up Sanctified Brethren, so you should know at the very least he didn't grow up Lutheran. Posted by Allegra (Member # 6773) on :
quote: something i've held sacred and true as gospel my entire life is starting to be questioned. could it be that Mr. Keillor, long thought by me to be Lutheran, is in fact of the Episcopal faith?!?! how...can...this...be? i think a part of me may have died with this discovery...
Episcopalians are wonderful people. My opinion of him has just gone up.
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
Well...they aren't that different, really. I'm a Lutheran, and I'm perfectly comfortable in an Episcopalian church (both liturgically and socially).
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
Megan, i know, my initial post was (i thought) obviously facetious. i rib my Episcopal and LMS friends the same way, seeing as how i'm ELCA. it's friendly rivalry...losing Keillor to the darkside is just WRONG!
[ February 04, 2005, 03:48 PM: Message edited by: Ben ]
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Lake Woebegon isn't real?
But....I BELIEVED in Lake Woebegon.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Keillor's religion humor has me laughing so hard sometimes it is unsafe to be driving. He can poke fun without being disrespectful, and he cracks me up.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
Travellers can always tell where the Lutheran church is because it's the ugliest building in town.
[ February 04, 2005, 04:55 PM: Message edited by: sarcasticmuppet ]
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
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Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
quote:Travellers can always tell where the Lutheran church is because it's the ugliest building in town.
That is not even close to true in the Rice area of Houston. The Lutheran and Episcopalian churches were nice-looking. The Baptist church was much uglier. And then some of the buildings on the Rice campus (Lovett College, for one . . . ugly toaster-looking building).
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
In La Canada, CA, there's a Lutheran church that the locals, even many of the Lutherans who attend, call the Church of the Holy Touchdown because there's a huge statue out front with its arms upraised just like a "touchdown" signal. You can't tell whether it's supposed to be Jesus or St. Peter or Luther or what, just that it's big, bald, has a quote from Isaiah (I think) on the bottom, and is apparently watching a giant football game.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Oh, and I have to say that the ugliest churches I ever saw are some of the LDS churches in south-eastern Nevada that look like bomb shelters or bunkers. Not even a cross because we don't use them.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Yeah, we need to sell some of those tan brick meetinghouses from the 50s to the Lutherans. They'd appreciate them. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
The ones I'm talking about are literally concrete blocks, though.
Perhaps it had something to do with nuclear testing in the Nevada desert? Are they lined with lead to "block the radiation"?
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Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
That's what I was thinking, too.
That, or to withstand the flames when Vegas burns.
Thanks for not letting me kill any threads, kq.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hey, I like to protect my reputation as a thread killer. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
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