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Years ago, it seems, when I was playing a lot more music than I do now, I was in a church group. This was fun for a lot of reasons, one being that we played on Sunday mornings, and I played with TSA at the Cheers Open Mic on Sunday nights, doing songs like Vibrator Dependent and Two Condoms.

Doing the church music things, we opened for an act called Lost and Found. I don't really care for Christian pop music, I generally find it a little bit creepy. Lost and Found was anything but. It was fun music from a specifically Lutheran point of view.

Lost and Found did a lot of great music that day, never heavy handed, always fun, usually with a nice message. My favorite song of that day was The Lutheran Song. Like I Know All The Presidents in Order, it's a simple song based on a list. As a poor songwriter, I've attempted this type of thing and I've never been able to pull it off. Lost and Found does so marvelously.

Lyle Lovett, John Mellencamp, Ace Frehley of KISS
St. Olaf, Henry Muhlenberg, Gustavus Adolphus
'89 and 1992's Miss America
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist, we swear-ica
Bruce Willis, Lonnie Anderson, David Hasselhoff
William Hurt, William H. Macey, Kris Kristofferson are Lutherans
And on the late night TV screen, Andy Richter could tell somebody "what does this mean"

Steve Jobs of the Apple computer
Gary Larson of the Far Side cartoon
Three different astronauts who flew shuttles toward the moon
Dave Winfield and NASCAR's Dales, Earnhardt and Jarrett, each had an acolyte gown and were happy to wear it

Tim Johnson, Fritz Hollings, Paul Simon and Ed Meece all have been known to sing a little "this is the feast"
You know who likes his potluck dinner? Troy Aikman the Super Bowl winner
Governers of Indiana, Minnesota, Wyoming, Kansas, Idaho, Montana and Tennessee
And Pachabel, with a Canon In D

And Woody from Cheers and Cindy McTee these all sing a little Lutheran liturgy

Elke Sommer, Martin Marty and Lucas Cranach, The Old
Albert Swietzer, Soren Kierkegaard and Dag Hammerskold
Sally Struthers, Anne Margaret, and J.A.O. Preuss
Mary Hart, Garrison Keiller, Lake Wobegon's voice

Liv Ullman, Tom Landry, Professor Pelliken whose name is Jaroslav
Pauls -- Gerhardt, Manz, Meir and Stormin' Norman Schwartzkopf
Robert Cade, the Gatorade maker
Johannes Keppler and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Martin Luther wasn't born a Lutheran and that might be a shock, but Mark Hansen was, April Larson and Johann Sebastian Bach

There are foods that Lutherans adopt, for example, the pretzel
Dana Carvey is a Lutheran, now "isn't that special?"
Yes, these all are Lutherans but still only just a few
The most notable Lutherans of all are every single one of you!

Makes me smile every time I hear it.

BOJ