A lot of people I know (OK, 95% of my coworkers) snark on Anne Lamott, a liberal Christian writer with old lady dreadlocks. Wow, when I put it like that, I hate her myself. But I really don’t—Lamott is a refutation to every stereotype of Christians as uptight, conservative bigots, and it’s a very refreshing voice in small doses. I thought her first book on the topic, Traveling Mercies, was really good, but that she’s kind of scraping the old idea barrel ever since. But still—she’s grouchy, she hates the president, she’s upfront about her shortcomings, she goes to a working class church, and she once told me that she believes in the same god that Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi believed in. I don’t know—I can’t find a lot to hate about that.
Lamott will be at the Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne, tonight at 7 pm. It’s free.