Kate Bowler
Author; Podcaster; Professor, Duke University
Kate Bowler is an author, podcast host, and associate professor of American religious history at Duke Divinity School. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we’re capable of change. Bowler wrote the New York Times best-selling memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved), after being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35. Her other books include No Cure for Being Human and two books co-authored with Jessica Richie: Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection and The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days. Her first book was Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel. In Bowler’s podcast, “Everything Happens,” she talks with guests about what they’ve learned in difficult times.
Previously
The 21st century is throwing a lot at us. How do ancient texts and traditions ground us, and what do they have to tell us about living a good life in today’s world?
DOORS OPEN AT 6PM. The “On Being” podcast is acclaimed for its “mind- and heart-expanding” exploration of “theology, ethics, science, the soul, and what it means to be a human...
Featuring three one-on-one conversations, our tenth anniversary closing session is not to be missed! We begin with comedian Iliza Shlesinger, who opens up to bestselling autho...
The Pew Trust’s 2014 study of Evangelicals notes that roughly 25 percent of adults in the United States identify with evangelical Protestantism, the largest Christian followin...
Kate Bowler, a young scholar of Christianity, had just written a book called Blessed, about the Christian idea that good things happen to good people, when she was diagnosed w...
Illness and death are universal challenges, but not something we anticipate in our 30s. Kate Bowler and Lucy Kalanithi understand that any of us can confront these harsh reali...