BY ANDREA MILLER MARCH 3, 2021
Leading Christian writer Anne Lamott is married to Vipassana practitioner Neal Allen. Andrea Miller on how this interfaith couple has found the sweet spot where their beliefs meet. They call it “the holy moment.”
When the celebrated Christian writer Anne Lamott and her partner, Neal Allen, bought a house together in Fairfax, California, he filled all the alcoves, corners, and mantles with Buddhist and Hindu statues. Then, though it wasn’t exactly competitive, she went around and put an image of Jesus or Mary next to each of them.
“We have our own profound commitment to our own spirituality, but it’s like a Venn diagram,” says Anne. In the center, “everything is the same, just with different vocabularies and focuses. We’re both immersed in what we’d call the holy moment or the now or the immediacy of being in beauty. I experience it through Jesus and Mary. Neal experiences it in more esoteric ways.” Read HERE.