NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God’s disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward “blessing.”.
The Truest, Hardest Thing At age 35, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer and given less than a year to live. Two and a half years later she continues to live with her terminal illness, balancing the roles of assistant professor at Duke Divinity School, wife, and mother to a toddler.
Everything Happens For A Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler is a memoir about living with a terminal cancer diagnosis. As a religious scholar and expert on the prosperity gospel, Bowler evaluates how this religious philosophy has permeated American culture to influence how we deal with tragedy, understand success, and quantify questions of fairness and entitlement.
RNS. Kate Bowler is a wife, mother and historian who was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Her new book, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved, is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about enduring and responding to tragedy.It’s a literary masterpiece bursting with wisdom.
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Kate Bowler, assistant professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School, has written a memoir telling the story of her struggle to understand the personal and intellectual dimensions of the American belief that all tragedies are tests of character after she was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35.
Recent and forthcoming books include Kate Bowler’s The Preacher’s Wife, Shahab Ahmed’s What Is Islam?, and Barry Scott Wimpfheimer’s The Talmud: A Biography. In anthropology, I am interested in historically informed ethnography, books that extend classic ethnographic questions and methods into the study of digital culture and technology.