{The Lutheran Ladies' Lounge} Mother + Daughter: The Magnesses

This week, the Ladies are rolling out a brand-new interview series: Mother + Daughter. Each of these conversations will feature a different pair of Lutheran women who are joined not only by the closest bonds of kinship but also by the fellowship they share as Lutheran sisters in Christ.

In the first of these conversations, we welcome Cheryl and Caitlin Magness.

Cheryl Magness is managing editor of Reporter, the official newspaper of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Her writing has also appeared in publications including The Federalist, Touchstone and The Lutheran Witness. Caitlin Magness is a manager in the food services industry, a graduate student completing her master’s degree in library science, and a self-published novelist. Cheryl and Caitlin currently share a home and are both active members of Village Lutheran Church in Ladue, Missouri.

How can mothers and daughters navigate a young woman’s transition from childhood to adulthood? How can they model mutually supportive interactions both in person and online? What strategies help keep tension from taking over in a multigenerational home? What does it look like when two very different writers live under one roof?

Click to read Cheryl Magness’s most recent contributions to Reporter.

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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.