When life is hard, we work harder. Right? Let’s hit the pause button and talk about how creativity can give us back some of what we’ve lost. The Everything Happens Podcast is coming to you with a live event!
Join host Kate Bowler for a conversation about hope and creativity with the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert, on Sunday, October 9th at 6PM Eastern (in-person or via livestream).
Registrations Available for Purchase:
- In-Person at Page Auditorium on The Duke University Campus (Durham, NC) with Complimentary Parking — $30.00
- Virtual Livestream (anywhere in the world) — $15.00
About Kate
Kate Bowler, PhD is a three-time New York Times bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and an Associate Professor of American Religious History at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we’re capable of change. She is the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel and The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, she penned the New York Times bestselling memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved), No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear) and her latest written with her co-producer, Jessica Richie, Good Enough: 40ish devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Kate hosts the Everything Happens podcast where, in warm, insightful, often funny conversations, she talks with people like Malcolm Gladwell and Anne Lamott about what they’ve learned in difficult times. She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her family and continues to teach do-gooders at Duke Divinity School.
About Liz
Elizabeth Gilbert is a New York Times bestselling author who expands our understanding of creativity. Her memoir, Eat Pray Love, the #1 New York Times bestseller, famously chronicled the year Gilbert spent traveling the world after a shattering divorce. Following Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert wrote Committed: A Love Story, a meditation on marriage as a socio-historical institution. Gilbert’s bestselling nonfiction treatise, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, unpacks her own generative process and shares her wise, witty insights into the mysteries of curiosity and inspiration. Her latest bestseller is the novel City of Girls. Starting as a magazine journalist, she wrote articles published in Harper’s Bazaar, Spin, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ. Gilbert was a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and her work was anthologized in Best American Writing 2001. Gilbert is also the founder and host of The Onward Book Club, which serves to spotlight, promote, celebrate, and uplift the work of Black female authors. She divides her time between New York City and New Jersey.
About The Everything Happens Podcast
Life isn’t always bright and shiny, as Kate Bowler knows. Kate is a young mother, writer and professor who, at age 35, was suddenly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer. In warm, insightful, often funny conversations, Kate talks with people about what they’ve learned in dark times.
This Live Podcast Event is in partnership with Duke Divinity School’s 2022 Convocation and Pastors’ School.
Sunday evening’s event with Kate Bowler and Liz Gilbert is open to the public, as well as registrants of the Pastors’ School Conference. The annual Convocation & Pastors’ School is an intensive multi-day conference that offers lectures, worship, alumni gatherings, and seminars for Christian leaders of all traditions. Led by scholars and practitioners from Duke University and beyond, this event is a cooperative endeavor with the North Carolina and Western North Carolina Conferences of the United Methodist Church, The Duke Endowment, and Duke Divinity School. **Note: The Sunday Night event is open to the public. Register to attend the Sunday Night Podcast Event, here. Or register for the full multi-day Pastors’ School conference, if it interests you. See our FAQ below for more information.
Frequently Asked Questions
For additional questions or support, email Harriet at hello@katebowler.com.