{The Lutheran Ladies' Lounge} Rachel's Trivia Challenge: Coffee and Christianity

We all know and love enjoying coffee hour together after church. (Click here and here for recent evidence of how much we at The Lutheran Ladies’ Lounge love this venerable Lutheran tradition.) But how much do you know about the connection between coffee and Christianity? Test yourself with the latest round of Rachel’s Trivia Challenge—all about coffee!

Which religious group pioneered the brewing and drinking of coffee? What was Pope Clement VIII’s reaction to his first sip of the stuff? Which 90s Christian rock band penned an ode to “good coffee, strong coffee”? And, perhaps most importantly, did Martin Luther drink coffee???

To learn more about this fascinating subject, check out the following resources:

“A Reformation History of Coffee” (Rev. Chris Gillespie/Coffee by Gillespie)
“Father, Son, and Holy Roast: How Coffee Became Christians’ Acceptable Vice” (Washington Post)
“Coffee: The Beverage That Fuels the Church” (Christianity Today)
“The Sipping Sacrament” (BeliefNet)
“The Beloved Church Coffee Hour May Soon Return as COVID-19 Fades” (Religion News Service)
Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith by Tim Schenck
“What Churchgoers Missed Most about In-Person Services” (Barna Group)

Need more trivia? Click through to listen to previous Rachel’s Trivia Challenge episodes.

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The Lutheran Ladies Lounge is the podcast produced by KFUO Radio and hosted by Sarah Gulseth, Erin Alter, Rachel Bomberger, and Bri Gerzevske. Created for Lutheran ladies to have a place to escape to with inviting conversations, laughter, and fellowship with Lutheran sisters, we invite all of you Lutheran ladies to join Sarah, Erin, Rachel, and Bri on the sofa in the Lutheran Ladies Lounge to sit, rest your feet, and stay a while. If you’re a Lutheran lady, join us in our Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/LutheranLadiesLounge.

Sarah Gulseth

A proud Michigan native and fan of anything with the Mitten State on it, Digital Media Manager Sarah Gulseth is also a lover of historical war movies and anything with the label PBS Masterpiece. An avid bicyclist and women’s biking advocate, she rides her bike to work year-round and has the massive bike clothing and accessory collection to prove it. If it’s the weekend, she and her husband Luther are probably out riding bikes, or finding the next awesome coffee shop to frequent, or rehearsing for the next choir concert. You may also find her down a new rabbit hole on Google, researching the latest random fact she found on social media, while eating an unhealthy amount of apples (Macintosh from Michigan, of course) and raw almond butter.