Meet Kate Bowler
Meet Kate Bowler
Sep 10, 2017
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Kate Bowler Is Made for Hope | Duke Today
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Meet Kate. A divinity professor at Duke and a young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis ask why bad things happen and tries to love life - and God - without certainty, in her new book EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON (And Other Lies I've Loved). Out February 6. PRE-ORDER HERE: http://bit.ly/ordereverythinghappens | Kate Bowler
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Meet Kate. A divinity professor at Duke and a young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis ask why bad things happen and tries to love life - and God - without certainty, in her new book EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON (And Other Lies I've Loved). Out February 6. PRE-ORDER HERE: http://bit.ly/ordereverythinghappens | Kate Bowler
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Diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer, Kate Bowler realized her expectations for health and happiness were based on a lie. Bowler is a Duke Divinity School associate professor of the history of Christianity and the author of "Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved." Read Bowler's op-ed: https://wapo.st/2MSNKDe?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.0ee8a3ec8969 | Washington Post Opinions
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Diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer, Kate Bowler realized her expectations for health and happiness were based on a lie. Bowler is a Duke Divinity School associate professor of the history of Christianity and the author of "Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved." Read Bowler's op-ed: https://wapo.st/2MSNKDe?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.0ee8a3ec8969 | Washington Post Opinions
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Author Kate Bowler talks new book 'Joyful, Anyway' and optimism
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Author Kate Bowler talks new book 'Joyful, Anyway' and optimism
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'Everything happens for a reason' -- and other lies I've loved - Kate Bowler | Talks About
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'Everything happens for a reason' -- and other lies I've loved - Kate Bowler | Talks About
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Hi, I’m Kate. I’m a Duke professor, podcaster, and author with a single mission: giving you a little more permission to admit that you’re not always “living your best life.” After years of being told I was incurable, I was declared cancer-free. But there’s no going back. I am forever changed by what I discovered: life is so beautiful and life is so hard. For everyone. | Kate Bowler
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Hi, I’m Kate. I’m a Duke professor, podcaster, and author with a single mission: giving you a little more permission to admit that you’re not always “living your best life.” After years of being told I was incurable, I was declared cancer-free. But there’s no going back. I am forever changed by what I discovered: life is so beautiful and life is so hard. For everyone. | Kate Bowler
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Lately the title “essential worker” has filled our everyday vocabulary. And while nurses and other healthcare providers have always been essential, the world is finally beginning to value all that nurses do. This blessing is for the nurses, for the days you feel valued and for the days you just want to go home, shower, and get in bed. Thank you for being essential and for embracing the beauty that lives between health and illness. P.S. — the episode with Christie Watson comes out tomorrow. I can
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Kate Bowler’s story of coping with cancer and how it changed her faith
Mar 27, 2018
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Life is magic. But this kind of magic takes roughly 2 hours to capture on film. In unrelated news, my iPhone is out of memory. | Kate Bowler
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A Blessing for Gratitude | Kate Bowler
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LENT DAY 32 Think of a person you know who is incredibly gracious in their honesty. What are some of their methods for cultivating grace? | Kate Bowler
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When I got sick, I got super in Lent as a season for me. For people on the losing team. For people who felt broken or angry or sad or unable to have a “Precious Moments” version of their faith. Nope, sorry self-help, but we need an extremely gritty faith. I’m just starting to realize, though, that I need Lent to be more than just a good account of the present. I need it to tell me more about the future. A story about who we can BE once we know that we need to be saved. | Kate Bowler
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It’s Holy Saturday. And Jesus is dead. Our God has gone missing and no one can find him. My son asked me the other day, “what is hell?” And the most basic definition we have is, “It’s the absence of God.” So today is our living hell. God is gone. But there is a lovely detail in the Christian tradition that you might like today. It’s called “the harrowing of hell.” It’s the story of what Jesus did that day. He went to hell itself. And it is a beautiful love story. That even when we thought Jesus
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Let’s find a blanket and sigh in God’s direction. I swear that “deep fatigue and/or sorrow” summarizes half of the Psalms, so feel free to consider it spiritual. | Kate Bowler
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Are you living your best life now? Not always? GREAT ME NEITHER. My name is Kate Bowler. I study the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. And hobbies are wasted on me because I’d rather be talking to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, *EVERYTHING* happens. A new season of *fantastic* conversation starts on September 5th. Mark your calendar. Make sure you’re subscribed. You won’t want to miss this. EVERYTHING HAPPENS is available
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Just another day around here. ✨ | Kate Bowler
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We are kicking off Season 12 of the Everything Happens Podcast (!!) with my friend, Bob Crawford, someone who knows too well how terrible and beautiful life can be. Listen to EVERYTHING HAPPENS wherever you get your podcasts: wavve.link/EverythingHappens | Kate Bowler
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Welcome to January in America. | Kate Bowler
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Reason to try today: We can see, in the headlines and in our own hearts, that there are reasons to fear. Today we will try to try because we are scared. We are afraid for reasons other people might overlook or diminish. But we know. And we are beginning to believe that we are more afraid of our lives *not* changing than that they will. Have a beautiful, terrible day! ✨ | Kate Bowler
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CHRISTMAS IS COMING! (I know, I know. It’s still October. Wait until Halloween is over, you monster.) But if you are the kind of person who plans ahead and you want something to ground your walk toward Christmas, join us. The free devotional is available to print as a PDF or to access online. Get it at katebowler.com/advent. | Kate Bowler
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I love looking back at some of my favorite books from when I was a kid with a new perspective on what they teach us about being in the world. The lessons can be so gentle but resonate so deeply. Today’s words come from The Velveteen Rabbit, one of my favorite kids' books. If you’d like to listen to Meryl Streep’s reading of it you can find a link below. She makes everything better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_m054tLKvs | Kate Bowler
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Beyond the grief, the sorrow, the silence, love stays. | Kate Bowler
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Happy January. ☃️🧤❄️🧣 | Kate Bowler
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‘Tis the season for inflatable yard decor, emotional support sweaters, and just enough hope to light one more candle in the dark. | Kate Bowler
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In case you need a reminder, you old-soul you. 💕 | Kate Bowler
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Welcome to part three of myth-busting a "purpose-driven" life. Today's myth? Your life only counts if it’s capital-I Important. What if meaning isn’t in the mountaintop moments—but in the sandwich you made, the email you answered, the backyard hole you dug because… it just felt right? It doesn’t have to be impressive to be sacred. (It just has to be yours.) Follow for more cultural myth-ruining and gentle truth-telling. We’re just getting started. | Kate Bowler
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Not ‘I can’t imagine what you’re going through,’ but I want to try—because you shouldn’t have to feel this alone. | Kate Bowler
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I’m heading on TOUR! Nashville! Houston! DC! California! Charlotte! Greenville! Durham! NYC! HAVE A BEAUTIFUL, TERRIBLE DAY! officially hits bookshelves on January 23rd, and I might be coming to a city near you to celebrate. I hope to see you there. Click here to reserve your seat: https://katebowler.com/books/have-a-beautiful-terrible-day/#BookTour | Kate Bowler
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I’ve been thinking a lot about this season of “too much”. The too-muchness of what summer becomes—all that humidity and expectation and self-applied pressure. This is just a little reminder that tiny, simple, dumb acts count as summer, too. | Kate Bowler
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