56. What to Do with Our Short, Precious Life with Kate Bowler

Published: Dec. 28, 2021, 5:01 a.m.

b'1. Kate describes the overwhelming feeling of love\\u2014not anger\\u2014that she felt when she was sure she was near death.\\xa0\\n2. Why it\\u2019s time we throw out expressions like \\u201cEverything is possible\\u201d and \\u201cWhat doesn\\u2019t kill you, makes you stronger,\\u201d and rewrite our cultural cliches.\\xa0\\n3. Why Kate delights in celebrating the holidays\\u2014and how to survive the holiday season when there\\u2019s grief and loss and fear in all of us.\\xa0\\n4. Kate and Glennon bond over their love for swear words\\u2014and how using them is a reflection of what\\u2019s going on inside of them.\\n\\nAbout Kate:\\nKate Bowler, PhD is a\\xa0New York Times\\xa0bestselling author, podcast host, and a professor at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we\\u2019re capable of change. She is the author of\\xa0Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel\\xa0and\\xa0The Preacher\\u2019s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, she penned the\\xa0New York Times\\xa0bestselling memoir,\\xa0Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I\\u2019ve Loved)\\xa0and her latest,\\xa0No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear). Kate hosts the\\xa0Everything Happens\\xa0podcast where, in warm, insightful, often funny conversations, she talks with people like Malcolm Gladwell and Anne Lamott about what they\\u2019ve learned in difficult times. She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her family and continues to teach do-gooders at Duke Divinity School.\\n\\nBook:\\xa0No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)\\nInstagram:\\xa0@katecbowler\\nTwitter:\\xa0@KatecBowler\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices'