In her 1976 autobiography, Loretta Lynn, then 44, reflected on her “funny beliefs,” which she said sometimes mixed religion and superstition.
“I’m trying to lead a good Christian life, especially since I got baptized two years ago,” she wrote. “So there ain’t too much spicy to tell about me — just the truth.”
Elsewhere in the book, she proclaimed, “Nobody’s perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.”
Lynn grew up in the coal-mining community of Butcher Holler, Ky., also known as Butcher Hollow.
She attended church on Sundays and listened to preacher Elzie Banks “tell us about God and the devil.”
“I believed it all, but for some reason, I was never baptized,” she said. “After I started in music, I got away from going to church and reading the Bible. I believe I was living the way God meant me to, but I wasn’t giving God the right attention….”
Terry Rush, retired Church of Christ minister, was good friends with the late Loretta Lynn.
"Her faith in God was strong," Rush says of Lynn, who wrote about her baptism and ties to Churches of Christ in her autobiography "Coal Miner's Daughter." https://t.co/IaxnnRsInY
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