with moving, getting settled in, starting my new job and then spending a week in the dominican, i’ve been really behind on reading some blogs. i just caught up with brad lomenick’s blog last night and he asked a great question earlier this month which i thought i’d ask y’all.
if you could have dinner with anyone (besides jesus)…who would you have it with, and where would you have it?
mine would be anne lamott at a waffle house.
you?
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64 responses to “Dinner with Anne Lamott”
Bono… he is just so darn cool and it’d be in an Irish Pub.
Timeless? I’d like lunch in a pub with John Adams and Ben Franklin right before the summer of 1776. Can you work out the details? :)
Beth Moore on my back porch.
Louie Giglio in my kitchen.
Love anne lamott… and Jesus… but think I’d just love to have my kids meet my mom (d.1994) and to sit in some funky cafe with her, eating carrot cake and drinking coffee, maybe going garage saling with her for a few hours.
my dad – he’s been gone awhile now and the boys and i miss him – but he gets lunch with Jesus every day – lucky rascal he is
Sara Groves @ Noodles & Company
Me and my husband with Rob Bell somewhere near Jerusalem.
Phyllis Tickle, her farmhouse, sipping tea.
My mom’s dad. He died before I was born so I never got to meet Grandpa Thompson. Everyone tells me he and I are two of a kind.
So, Grandpa Thompson at any greasy spoon.
Maybe I’ll see him again someday…
Max Lucado. And it doesn’t matter where. I’d bring peanut butter and jelly sandwiches if I had to.
Queen Elizabeth I for tea.
Jentezen Franklin–anywhere would be fine (preferably not during a fast :o)
Kristi Fair…
On Tam Hodge’s pool deck!
The Flowerduster at the Cross Point Cafe
John Ortberg @ TonyRoma’s
or, Nicole Malachowski – first female demonstration pilot for USAF Thunderbirds
John & Staci Eldredge in our backyard
Brennan Manning at sushi.
Rev. Billy Graham’s wife, Ruth – if she were still with us. I can’t imagine her life walking alongside him. I’d try to talk her into sharing with me over a grilled cheese sandwich and frozen lemondade at City Limits Cafe.
Bill & Gloria Gaither at LaMadeliene (French) restaurant. My hubby and I have sung their songs ALL THESE YEARS.
Anyone, whether living or not?
Audrey Hepburn, and we would be on location with UNICEF feeding children in need.
I had Chris and Anne at Cracker Barrel… so left on the list would have to be…
Mark Driscoll in Seattle for whatever fish they have (since it is so stinkin’ fresh).
I think he would be the hardest for me to even meet because I have no connections to him whatsoever.
Billy Joel at any Italian restaurant in NYC.
Oh, and Carol…I was blessed enough to HAVE dinner with Bill & Gloria Gaither, a few times…They’re just as great as you would think. :-)
Abraham Lincoln, not only did he have the major burden of being President but he seemed to have family issues on top of that.
Steve Fee at Bellacino’s!
Mike Yaconelli at a sandwich shop that displayed fun local art.
rob bell at the farm boy
@josh – even better than the waffle house!
First I’d crash your dinner with Anne Lamott so I could do that, too.
Beth Moore at Panera. But she probably doesn’t eat as much bread as I do, so maybe I’d take her to Qdoba for some Mexican food.
Donald Miller, at my house, to just hang out and watch movies with my husband and me.
And Nichole Nordeman. I’d let her choose where she wants to go, because she’s the coolest.
(Not that I’ve already imagined any of this or anything.)
oh that’s easy.
julie andrews at a british tearoom. or really anywhere. i just want to talk to her.
My grandparents… and I would eat a home cooked meal with them.
it would have to be G.K. Chesterton, in a Parisian cafe in the Latin Quarter…
Jimmy Carter’s wife, Rosalynn, in the relaxed comfort of my home.
Justin Timberlake at Tavern On the Green so all the papparazzi take pictures of us together and i get 15 min of fame.
@brooke – that is so funny
I want to meet his guy-bet he goes to LC!
A plan to float a giant helium-filled banana blimp over Texas has gone bust due to a lack of money.
Since I have met the flowerduster although not for dinner, I would love to pick the brain of wideawake1 at her hearse.
Anne,
The person I would want to have dinner with the most is Chris Jackson.
Can you set that up???
BA
Brooke Fraser
Picnic somewhere…
First time reading your blog. =]
Like it.
–ash
would love to meet Anne J for lunch @ the stinking rose for a cool chat.
Leonardo DaVinci – at some amazing hole in the wall joint in Florence, Italy. I’d need to bring an interpreter along, too, I suppose or it might be a tad less fulfilling.
donald miller or anne lamont at the Rose Pepper in East Nashville ;) Hip enough for both of them i think :)
If I had a time machine, I would definitely choose Mother Teresa and eat where she lived and served.
Otherwise, it’d be a toss up between Mark Driscoll and Donald Miller. I’m more inclined to eat dinner with Donald because he seems a bit less intimidating. Either way, we’d all have steaks and frothy beverages!
Rudy Rasmus – Author of TOUCHED.
I would think the where would most likely be a soup kitchen line…
2nd Choice:
Ray Anderson – author of An EMERGENT Theology for Emerging CHURCHES … perhaps one of the best Emergent authors who calls us to remember the Gospel message and not forsake it just to be cool!
you and anne at the waffle house. i’d love to listen to you guys free associate…
C.S.Lewis at the Eagle and Child.
L. M. Montgomery–anywhere on Prince Edward Island.
Martin Luther King Jr.- anywhere with good southern food!
I would love to go back in time, and have an outdoor BBQ in the backyard with our core group of friends from San Diego….
I’d like to meet the famous Anne Jackson. Wait, I’ve already done that.
Seriously, this is an easy one. Billy Graham.
Wow. Maybe I have lived in away from America too long, but I don’t even know who Anne Lamott is. Dang. I feel stupid. But I would want to have tea with William Wilberforce. That’s my answer and I am sticking to it.
Anne Lamott is a Christian that writes about her faith with lots of wit humor and brutal honesty–it truly is a great combination. Her most popular book is Traveling Mercies (but its a part of a series that includes Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith and Grace Eventually).
I love Anne Lamott as well. I saw her speak a couple months ago and she is still just as amazing–but Im not sure if our personalities would click enough to sit down and have a conversation.
I feel like I would have to break this down into categories. I would also love to sit down and chat with Jamie Tworkowski (the founder of To Write Love on Her Arms)–I’ve met him but haven’t had the chance to thoroughly converse with him. And because I’m a bibliophile, I’d have to add C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, and Soren Kierkegaard.
Based on all that is going on right now in our country, I’d sit down with Barack and pick his brain at a local coffee house.
hmm… you because i miss you, but since i know you and all, i’ll have to say Rob Bell at Jimmy John’s. i think he’d like Jimmy John’s.
Thanks for that info…I tried to look her up, but there isn’t very insightful information on the lady.
You are going to think I’m kissing your butt and because of that I almost didn’t answer this question. But I would love to chat with you over lunch. There are other people I’d like to meet who are famous and whatnot. But I think the two of us would have a great time.
Anyway, we’d eat at Panera Bread.
well anne..since he couldn’t make your wedding i’d say i’d love to hang out with dave grohl…at an amusement park! how fun would that be?
i would also like lunch with cs lewis, dietrich bonhoeffer and johnny cash…oh and why not, throw Bono in the mix too. not all together … and i’d let each of them pick the place. location would hardly matter with people like that.
What a great, great question! And I will have to say Billy Collins, and we would meet in this coffeehouse that I picture in my mind. You know the type–that Bohemian dive that you always see in too cool movies? I search for it every time I visit a new city and never find it.
But I digress… That’s where we’d meet.
I love Anne Lamott! I just finished Bird By Bird – super book. Although, Traveling Mercies is my fave.
I always have the hardest time with this question.
Recently at church we had a drama about who you would NOT invite to dinner and what that says?
Basically the question was posed, “Is there room for ME(ie:someone who has done something really bad or a person who has hurt us) at your table.” It was so powerful.
Rev. Al Green for Creole in New Orleans.
Dante for ravioli in Rome
Rick Warren for Indian in Seattle
John McCain for sushi in Honolulu
Beethoven (pre-hearing loss) at a local coffee shop
Augustine pretty much anywhere
Good question. Probably Francine Rivers at the beach on the Santa Monica pier so we talk about God, her novels and enjoy a sunset while we eat.
great answers. wonderful question.
thomas aquinas for early morning coffee
Crap, I clicked over because I thought you really had dinner with Anne Lamott! Definitely the President. I would like to see hime relax and really let me know what he is thinking.