I'm just so desperately grateful that I have this faith, you know, it's from when everything

good about my life has sprung.

Hi, I'm Kelly Corrigan, and wondering is my favorite pastime?

These days, I'm wondering about the pain and beauty of deep belief and how people find

meaning and how we might all do a much better job of understanding each other.

My thought partner today is what my dad would call one of the all-time greats, New York

Times best selling off their Anne Lamont.

Annie is quick-witted and hilarious and honest as they come.

She's a Christian who credits her faith with saving her from addiction, guiding her through

single parenthood, and bringing all good things her way, including her recent marriage to what

she calls her very own personal husband.

We'll be right back with Anne Lamont.

So Annie Lamont, this is part of a series on belief that I would ask you just at the

top to sort of establish your beliefs.

The way I think of you is as a long-term, fully committed, publicly out Christian who grew

up in a family that didn't go to church.

Do I have that right?

Who were fundamentalist ACS?

Yes.

So how did you get from one side of that to the other?

Well, I always secretly believed that there was something, and my family, we worshiped

the New York Times and the East Coast white male literati, and we hiked, you know, and

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