Anne Lamott on Perfectly Imperfect

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Celebrated for her raw, hilarious accounts of stumbling toward her best self, Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books. Her special brand of humility, grace and gratitude makes this a must-listen episode for anyone needing a dose of inspiration. Special thanks to the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, our production partner on the Belief series. Please subscribe, rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts! We read and appreciate every review. You can follow the conversation with Kelly on Instagram @kellycorrigan. Replay of Ep 54 which originally aired in Sept 2021. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm just so desperately grateful that I have this faith.
0:05.2	You know, it's from whence everything good about my life has sprung.
0:11.0	Hi, I'm Kelly Corrigan, and Wondering is my favorite pastime.
0:15.6	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
0:24.3	better job of understanding each other. My thought partner today is what my dad would call one of the
0:31.1	all-time greats, New York Times bestselling author Anne Lamont. Annie is quick-witted and hilarious and honest as they come.
0:41.2	She's a Christian who credits her faith with saving her from addiction, guiding her through
0:45.7	single-parenthood, and bringing all good things her way, including her recent marriage to what she
0:50.9	calls her very own personal husband. We'll be right back with Anne Lamont.
0:55.6	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.
1:18.4	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.
1:27.3	Do I have that right?
1:28.6	Who were fundamentalist atheists. Yeah. So how did you get from one side of that to the other?
1:36.8	Well, I always secretly believed that there was something. And my family, we worshipped the New York Times and the East Coast white
1:46.7	male literati. And we hyped, you know, and that was our church. And we went to the library every
1:51.7	Thursday night, and that was our church. But I was secretly believed. And my best friends always had
1:57.9	religious families. One was a Catholic. and I loved going to church with her.
2:03.2	Most kids are trying to get out of it, but I love the incense, and I love the stained glass, and I
2:08.8	love the singing. But then my very best friend, Shelly Adams, who I still hike with three or four
2:15.5	times a week, her family was Christian scientists, which was to my
2:20.5	family, the Christian scientists were even crazier than you had to be. My family who hated all
2:26.4	Christians, had a list, and the Christian scientists were the worst. But, you know, I heard the mother
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