Church People: The Lutherans of Lake Wobegon (Prairie Home Companion)
by Garrison Keillor
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Author: Garrison KeillorPerformer: Garrison Keillor
Reader: Ensemble cast
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Abridged, Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
Published: 2009-09-02
ISBN: 1598879294
Number of pages: 5
Publisher: HighBridge Company
Book Reviews of Church People: The Lutherans of Lake Wobegon (Prairie Home Companion)
Book Review: A Mighty storyteller is our Garrison!
Summary: 5 Stars
Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" has been the source of wonderful music and stories for the past 30-odd years. This collection of material from the show is but the tiniest smidgen of the wonderful things that Keillor and his cast have to offer around the topic of religion. Keillor serves up commercials for Lutheran Airlines (Motto: "An uplifting experience") where dinner is potluck, and for Lutherans On Line, who want a church experience that is more interactive and meaningful (read, "shorter.") We get several segments of the news from Lake Wobegon, dealing with overreaching substitute organists, a baseball beaning that triggers a man's existential crisis, the patriotic wonders of a properly made Fourth of July potato salad and a pastor's angst when the wrong picture gets into the church directory. Guy Noir makes an appearance, helping a young Sunday school teacher who tipsily bared more of herself than her soul. The interview with a woman adrift in her home on the flooded Red River, using crates of Bibles for ballast, was hilarious. The polka band playing old hymns was a hit, as was the piece on summer vacations, the low point of every Midwest Lutheran's warm season.
"Church People," recorded before various live audiences, is heartwarming, irreverent, doleful and joyful by turns. Keillor's deep, sonorous voice is a treasure that never gets old. Worth repeated listens.
Summary of Church People: The Lutherans of Lake Wobegon (Prairie Home Companion)
Skits, songs, stories, and more from A Prairie Home Companion reveal the secret world of a stalwart people.When you fly Lutheran Air, there?s no first class, meals are potluck with assignments by rows (rows 1-6, bring rolls; rows, 7-15, salad), all fares are by freewill offering, and the plane doesn?t land until the budget is met.
Welcome to the Land of Lutherans, where people drive Fords, wear cardigans, go to church at Third Lutheran (which used to be called First Lutheran, but Lutherans are more comfortable with being Third), drink a lot of coffee, serve chow mein noodles on tuna hot dish, work hard, and don?t make a fuss. Selected from live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, this collection celebrates the kindest people on God?s green earth?except for the mean ones. If you?re not a Lutheran, you?ll laugh out loud. If you are, you?ll smile as hard as you can.
Contents:
- I?m a Lutheran
- Lutheran Tours: Vacation Guilt
- Potato Salad
- Elim Lutheran Anniversary with Philip Brunelle
- Iniquity on the Tundra with Charles Keating
- LYLE: Lutheran Youth League for Evangelism
- St. Patrick?s Day
- The Story of Bob with Vern Sutton
- Church Directory
- Guy Noir: New Year?s Eve Indiscretion
- LOL: Lutherans On Line
- Lutheran Polka
- Summer Vacation
- Flood: Floating Away with Your Pastor
- Evelyn Lundquist Counseling Agency (ELCA): Easter Briefing
- Church Organist
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