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Remembering what KFUO stands for—Keeping Forward, Upward, Onward—has helped the programming grow over the decades in ways that let the Gospel message penetrate through cultural changes and shifting attitudes. Most of the programs are original shows produced in St. Louis.
For example, there is Clayton’s magazine program, “Morning Show.” Rathert hosts “The Bible Study,” an hour-long examination of Scripture with guest pastors. Rev. Todd Wilken hosts the three hour live talk program “Issues, Etc.,” focusing on current events facing Christianity. The Sunday night “Issues, Etc.” is syndicated across the country.
“The responses we receive from listeners are the testimony that we’re getting it done,” says Rathert. “Some people we unnerve, and some we distress, because they’re hearing a perspective they’re not used to or don’t agree with. Some are encouraged by what they hear because they can’t find it anywhere else.”
One listener who hears KFUO over the Internet in St. Paul, Minn., wrote late last year that he had “never heard more sound, unflinching explanations of the Christian faith anywhere in Christian broadcasting. The unapologetic apology of the Lutheran faith is sound, Christcentered, and true. Thank you for your efforts.”
A life-long Lutheran from St. Louis wrote that she was a casual, Sunday-only Christian. But then she started listening to KFUO. “I have been spreading the word about KFUO to my friends who are not Lutheran, because I find that the programming speaks from the Word to everyone. It’s not just a Lutheran station speaking Lutheran doctrine,” she wrote.
And last year KFUO received this surprising message from an Internet listener in Hamilton, New Zealand. He testified, “I am a [former] Muslim who has been born again by grace alone, faith alone, Christ alone. I [no longer] believe there is any other way to come to God. [From] John 14:6: May the God of Glory through Christ Jesus bless you.”
The Lutheran Witness (September 2005, pp 15-16)
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