The world of Kate Bowler is beautiful and terrible and as human as it gets.
She’s a four-time New York Times bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and Professor of Religious History at Duke University. She also holds the prestigious titles of mother to Zach and wife of Toban.
The world of Kate Bowler is beautiful.
She’s a four-time New York Times bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and Professor of Religious History at Duke University. She also has two honorary doctorates, an award from Yale University for service to theological education, and seven books to her credit. Additionally, she is the only person ever to hold the prestigious titles of mother to Zach and wife of Toban.
The world of Kate Bowler is terrible.
At 35, Kate was blindsided by Stage IV cancer and the aftermath of its grueling treatment. After that colossal suck and her subsequent recovery, Kate began to rethink pretty much everything she thought she knew about life, loss, grief, and even joy.
The world of Kate Bowler is as human as it gets.
She is on a mission to unravel our complicated humanness. She’s not looking to add to the cultural library of lovely stories about hard work and positive attitudes and yet-to-be-revealed reasons things happen. Because those lovely stories are fiction, and Kate knows that an ugly truth will always serve us better than a beautiful lie.
Everything Happens for a Reason
(And Other Lies I’ve Loved)
Irreverent, hard-won observations on mortality and the ways it has taught Kate to live.
The Lives We Actually Have
100 Blessings for Our Imperfect Days
Warm and witty blessings found within the struggles of our shared humanity.
No Cure for Being Human
(And Other Truths I Need to Hear)
How do you move forward with a life you didn’t choose?
Have a Beautiful Terrible Day
Daily Meditations For The Ups, Downs & In-Betweens
Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the good
Are you living your best life now? Not always? Well, this is a podcast for you. Kate Bowler is a historian and expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, everything happens.
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Kate loves to challenge the clichés we use to think about success and failure. She celebrates the necessity for courage, honesty, and the embarrassing amount that we rely on each other. (Sorry, individualism.) Join her at an event near you.
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