Kate Bowler

Durham, Winnipeg

Host at Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Associate Professor of American Religious History at Duke University

📖 4X New York Times bestseller 🍎 @DukeUniversity 🎙 Everything Happens

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Aspen Ideas: Health 2025 Reading List

2 weeks ago | aspenideas.org | Meaningful Caregiving |Richard Besser |Kate Bowler

Can AI enhance human consciousness? How do we reckon with racism in medicine? Is psychological richness the key to a life well lived? Can we calm our minds with food? How do we address the gender gap in youth mental health? Our 2025 Aspen Ideas: Health reading list, featuring books from this year's speakers, shines a spotlight on the broad-range of compelling topics that will be discussed during the June 22-25 event.
Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!

May 22, 2024 | sonderbooks.com | Kate Bowler

Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens by Kate Bowler Review posted May 22, 2024. Convergent, 2024. 204 pages. Review written May 22, 2024, from my own copy purchased via Amazon.com. Starred Review 2024 Sonderbooks Standout: #3 Christian Nonfiction The title of this book perfectly encapsulates what's so helpful about Kate Bowler's writing.
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Mar 12, 2024 | player.fm | Kate Bowler

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Have a Beautiful Terrible Day

Feb 26, 2024 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler is an interesting person and writer. Born in the United Kingdom, she was raised in Canada and now teaches Christian history at Duke Divinity School in North Carolina. Bowler is a Protestant Christian with evangelical leanings (she’s Mennonite), with the ability to speak generously to a wide audience of people looking for spiritual answers. She’s also a cancer survivor, which informed her earlier New York Times bestseller, Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved).
A Note on Lent: A Guest Post From Sarah Bessey

Feb 16, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Sarah Bessey |Tsh Oxenreider |Kate Bowler |Chanequa Walker-Barnes

A Note on Lent: A Guest Post From Sarah Bessey With the Lenten season beginning in only a few days, Sarah Bessey has curated a list of her favorite books for the season. With her brand new book out today, Field Notes for the Wilderness, Sarah gives us great insight on all things Lent, and shares how it impacts her life for the better.
No Cure for Being Human

Feb 12, 2024 | sonderbooks.com | Kate Bowler

No Cure for Being Human(And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler Review posted February 12, 2024. Random House, 2021. 202 pages. Review written January 16, 2024, from my own copy, purchased via Amazon.com. Starred Review I ordered this book because of how much I loved the author's book of meditations, The Lives We Actually Have, and that after reading it, I realized she was the author of Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved.
Heartbroken? Bestselling Author Florence Williams on the Science Behind the Pain, Plus Tips on How to Heal

Feb 10, 2024 | mariashriversundaypaper.com | Meghan Rabbitt |Kate Bowler

As anyone who’s ever loved will tell you, heartbreak is par for the course, whether due to death, divorce, a breakup, estrangement—the reasons are endless. Yet what many of us don’t talk about as freely is the impact of that heartache on our psyches and our physical bodies. Florence Williams wants us to have that conversation. For Williams, it’s personal.
Modern-Day Psalmist Kate Bowler Shares 3 Spiritual Reflections on Love All of Us Need This Week

Feb 10, 2024 | mariashriversundaypaper.com | Kate Bowler

These are terrible days. These are beautiful days. Somehow both realities feel inseparable in our minds now. We have the sense that something bad might happen, and has already happened. When we read the headlines, we do not shake our heads. We nod. Yes, we think. Of course that would happen. Our moods seem tight and jittery. We worry about groceries and school shootings and airborne viruses. We worry about kids and parents and friends and whether this, whatever this is, is all we can expect.
Rapture Ready

Jan 24, 2024 | scnoneida.net | Lysa TerKeurst |David Jeremiah |Kate Bowler

Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the good—from the three-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) Kate Bowler believes that the cultural pressure to be cheerful and optimistic at all times has taken a toll on our faith. But what if we could find better language than forced positivity to express our hopes and our anxieties?
‘Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!’

Jan 4, 2024 | faithandleadership.com | Kate Bowler

feeling God’s loveI have loved you with an everlasting love;I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. — Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV)Think back. Was there a time and place where you have felt truly beloved? I mean, downright cherished? Those are precious and good moments. Sometimes it’s the feeling of your dog or cat deciding you have hung the moon, or at least put dinner out in a dish. A child that hugs you around the waist. A friend’s irrational interest in the specifics of your day.