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There’s no cure for being human,
but we are all good medicine.
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During my season of difficulty, I found myself repeating the same thing over and over again: Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard. For everyone. Out of this realization, I founded the Everything Happens Project where we foster Everyday Empathy in the form of books, podcasts, blessings, and art like this in Durham, North Carolina.
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“Bowler (Everything Happens for a Reason), professor at the Duke Divinity School, explains in this excellent analysis how some evangelical women have managed to become mega-ministry celebrities by transforming the limited roles allotted to women in evangelical culture into positions of power. Framing these women’s work as that of wives, mothers, homemakers, and teachers―rather than pastors or business leaders―Bowler reveals how figures including Joyce Meyer, Beth Moore, and Victoria Osteen wield enormous power in their husbands’ ministries, both on stage and behind the scenes. . . . [This] wonderful work provocatively considers what women gain and lose in becoming ‘market-ready’ for evangelical communities.”
―Publishers Weekly, starred review
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