This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
What prompted you to write a book about your faith?
Someone said, Would you ever want to write something about faith?
Ive got a job.
Im not looking for extra credit.
I dont want to write a memoir.
I dont even remember my whole career.
Plus, its boring.
Who wants to hear about me?
[But] I was like,Icouldactuallygetexcitedandinterestedinthat.Its a passion.
Its because I find it endlessly interesting and intellectually challenging, and emotionally thrilling.
I felt like I might be able to try that.
Well, we talk about God all the time.
I give a shot to carry on what my sister so memorably said.
There were five Guthries, so she would say, God was the sixth member of our family.
Both my husband and I make a run at keep God really present in our everyday lives.
Lets tell the truth to God, tell the truth to yourself and its gone.
I just attempt to keep it current with them.
The older they get, the harder their questions will be.
I know for myself that certainly as I became a young adult …
I never felt alone, because I always felt God with me.
So long after Im gone, they will have that faith.
I knew thats where you were going!
Im trying to get some boondoggle with our show [to go again in October].
I loved it probably more than my daughter did.
