• What do we do when the world feels unbearably heavy—and no one is coming to save us?

    To kick off Season 16 of Everything Happens, Kate Bowler sits down live with beloved author and truth-teller Anne Lamott for a luminous, funny, and deeply honest conversation about shame, joy, faith, aging, love, and what it means to keep showing up anyway.

    Recorded in front of a packed house at the historic Carolina Theatre in Durham, Kate and Anne talk about the shame that follows us from childhood, the relief of putting down our armor, and the small, ordinary acts of love that still matter. This is a conversation for anyone who feels tender, overwhelmed, skeptical of easy answers—and still hungry for hope.

  • What happens when the life you were supposed to have… disappears?

    Jen Hatmaker joins Kate Bowler for a conversation about faith, divorce, patriarchy, and the slow art of healing. After the collapse of her marriage and being pushed out of the evangelical world, Jen had to figure out how to live again—how to co-parent, pay bills, go to therapy, and mother herself after decades of being the “pastor’s wife.

    This is for the people who are learning how to live when the story changes. A conversation about grief, grace, and not doing it alone.

  • Practicing Repair

    These ten questions are for the weary reconcilers, the tired pastors, the estranged parents, the bridge-builders among us who believe that—even now—it’s not too late to start again. One small step. One halting prayer. One choice toward love.

  • There are no training manuals for this. Just a child staring up at you with cartoon eyes and an inner monologue that asks: Am I doing this right? Am I ruining them?

    Kate sits down with Dr. Becky Kennedy—a clinical psychologist and creator of Good Inside—to talk about the heartbreak and hope of parenting. What does it mean to raise (or re-raise) someone with compassion and boundaries, especially when you never learned how?

    Whether you’re parenting toddlers, teens, or the little one inside yourself, this conversation offers grace for anyone trying again.

  • No Reason Season

    This is your invitation into No Reason Season—a time to create, rest, and live without performance. Inspired by Kate Bowler & Maria Bowler’s conversation, this reflection guide is a small step toward living with more gentleness and less hustle.

  • heartbreak and divorce

    Heartbreak is its own kind of grief—a death without a funeral. No casseroles. No sympathy cards. Just a life that looks mostly the same… except it’s anything but.
    And somehow the world keeps turning. People post vacation photos. Your ex looks suspiciously cheerful on social media (rude). And you’re left holding the sharp edges of a life you didn’t choose.
    It’s lonely here. And different. And maybe it’s exactly what needed to happen, and you wish you could say that out loud too. There aren’t always words for what you’re experiencing.
    But as you gather up what remains, I hope you know this isn’t the end of your story. Love is still here. God is still here. There is more for you still.
    We’ve put together a small series of resources—some conversations and gentle words for the road ahead.
    No easy answers. Just good company.

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