Kate Bowler’s story of coping with cancer and how it changed her faith
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Kate Bowler’s story of coping with cancer and how it changed her faith
Kate Bowler, a 37-year-old Duke Divinity School professor, opens up about living with stage 4 colon cancer and how her faith changed as a result. Bowler is the author of the best-selling book “Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved.” NBC’s Ann Thompson shares her story in a new edition of Finding Faith TODAY.
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Hi, I’m Kate. I’m a Duke professor, podcaster, and author with a single mission: giving you a little more permission to admit that you’re not always “living your best life.” After years of being told I was incurable, I was declared cancer-free. But there’s no going back. I am forever changed by what I discovered: life is so beautiful and life is so hard. For everyone. | Kate Bowler
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Hi, I’m Kate. I’m a Duke professor, podcaster, and author with a single mission: giving you a little more permission to admit that you’re not always “living your best life.” After years of being told I was incurable, I was declared cancer-free. But there’s no going back. I am forever changed by what I discovered: life is so beautiful and life is so hard. For everyone. | Kate Bowler
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Raise your hand if you're "the fixer." The one who holds everything together. Makes the plans. Predicts every outcome (and acts accordingly). Carries the weight, emotionally and physically.🙋‍♀️ But what happens when that strength becomes a shield? One that protects you from yourself? In today's episode of Everything Happens with Amanda Doyle of the "We Can Do Hard Things" podcast, we talk about the pitfalls of fixing so hard it feels like control, cancer, parenting, and literally everything in
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Whew. This book. This book is a story about love and faith and the community it makes. Wholehearted Faith comes out today and I hope it fills you with the same joy and sense of transcendent hope it did for me. If you haven’t had the chance to read something by Rachel, this is a wonderful moment. Rachel packed her 37 years of life with incredible work and she is there in her writings for us to discover and hear her anew. Some small love notes: @rachelheldevans, we miss you and love you and are gr
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Welcome to “Just Woke Up From Anesthesia Kate.” She has a lot of alarming questions for all the doctors. So hey. First of all, thank you for these years of support of all my ups and down. The great news is that I am cancer free and am in a durable remission. So I will practice saying that over and over again. I used to have Stage IV cancer. And I now I don’t. I will always need prevention (thank you colonoscopies) and a lot of monitoring and nothing will be very simple (hospital, you and I will
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Our lives are rarely predictable or at all in our control. Sometimes what happens to us or around us can reshape our entire trajectory. Nicky Gumbel is someone whose life was dramatically changed. He thought he was going to be a very fancy lawyer… just like everyone else in his family, but that’s not what happened. Nicky became one of the pioneers of the Alpha Course where 30 million (!!) people have been introduced to Christian faith around the world. In this conversation, we discuss his reluct
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Lately the title “essential worker” has filled our everyday vocabulary. And while nurses and other healthcare providers have always been essential, the world is finally beginning to value all that nurses do. This blessing is for the nurses, for the days you feel valued and for the days you just want to go home, shower, and get in bed. Thank you for being essential and for embracing the beauty that lives between health and illness. P.S. — the episode with Christie Watson comes out tomorrow. I can
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blessed are you, who feel the wound of fresh loss. or of the loss... no matter how fresh... that still makes your voice crack all these years later. you who are stuck in the impossibility. frozen in disbelief. how can this be? it wasn’t supposed to be this way. blessed are you, fumbling around for answers or truths to make this go down easier. who demand answers or are dissatisfied with the shallow theology and trite platitudes. blessed are we, who, instead, demand a blessing. because we have wr
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What do we do when our faith systems fail us? How do we pick up the pieces after the certainties we've clung to turn to dust? In this very special Holy Week episode, I sit down with one of my most beloved friends (and fellow Canadian!), @sarahbessey. She's a writer and faith leader who understands what it feels like to watch faith fall apart AND how to come out the other side changed. This week is heavy. But I'm reminded, especially after this conversation, that God sits with us in the heaviness
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a blessing when the road is long o God, i could not have imagined that this road could be so long and so hard, yet here i am, worn out, body and soul. o God, I don’t know what to do. help me. God have mercy. Christ have mercy. Spirit have mercy. the Lord says: stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk in it. Jeremiah 6:16 God have mercy. Christ have mercy. Spirit have mercy. blessed are we, the weak who must set aside what we are carrying, and b
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I don't really feel like my life is very remarkable right now. Or...much of anything at all. But thankfully there is a saint for that. Saint Therese called it "The Little Way." Small things adding up to big, sustaining love. | Kate Bowler
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a blessing for the day we mourn our dead (All Saints’ Day) today we are drawn into remembrance. the complexity of love and loss both warms our hearts and chills our bones. invisible connections are revealed just as the light of the sun illuminates the lines of a web, we see that our lives are connected to those who are no longer here. blessed are we who acknowledge the impressions made by those who’ve passed a child’s nose, a joke carried on, a chair left in our name, a story that we now tell. b
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Are you living your best life now? Not always? GREAT ME NEITHER. My name is Kate Bowler. I study the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. And hobbies are wasted on me because I’d rather be talking to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, *EVERYTHING* happens. A new season of *fantastic* conversation starts on September 5th. Mark your calendar. Make sure you’re subscribed. You won’t want to miss this. EVERYTHING HAPPENS is available
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We are in a caregiving crisis. Not enough help. Too little pay. No real safety net. And those who do the work—the diaper-changers, hand-holders, pill-counters, appointment-makers—are often running on fumes. After spending time with @aijenp, I’ve never been more certain: this is holy work, and we need to care for the caregivers. Ai-jen is fighting like a person who knows what’s at stake (because she does). She’s organizing, educating, pushing for the kind of policies that could actually support a
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Welcome to part FOUR of busting the myth of a “purpose-driven” life. Can you have too much purpose? Oh friend. YES. YES YOU CAN. You can be so over-purposed you’re practically oozing from the squeeze of it all. Because sometimes purpose doesn’t feel like clarity or peace—it feels like exhaustion in a thousand directions. You’re parenting, caregiving, replying to the group chat, uncrustifying sandwiches, keeping people alive, and occasionally hydrated. This isn’t a life—it’s a purpose parade with
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You don’t want to miss this. Coach K and I are sitting down to a live audience recording of Everything Happens on October 14th in Durham! We’re talking about winning, losing, and everything in between. Grab tickets at the link below - it’ll definitely sell out. YAY SPORTS! (and conversation) p.s. UNC, I love you. I will make this up to you. 😊 | Kate Bowler
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Lent invites us to soften - to clear out what's heavy, let go of what hardens us, and see the people around us with a little more grace. "Generous interpretation" means assuming a sense of understanding and empathy, even when it would be easier not to. And I love how @sharonsaysso makes the point that joy can grow if we try not to perceive everything like a slight. The short reply wasn't personal. The person who cut you off in traffic might be having a terrible day. Maybe the holiest thing we ca
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In the year of our Lord 2025, I am reclaiming the phrase "basic b!*ch." That's all. Thank you. | Kate Bowler
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Here's a blessing if you're feeling a bit fragile today. You are loved. You are loved. You are loved. You will not disappear. You are here. | Kate Bowler
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What about when… *everything does actually happen*? When we can’t UNKNOW that life just… comes apart!? We don’t have unfounded anxieties. They are *real.* Gone is the naivety or fearlessness of our youth. I love Tig Notaro on this exact question. How do YOU move forward with this understanding? | Kate Bowler
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To everyone starting over... Starting scared. Starting when you'd really rather lie down forever. Cheers to you. That’s gutsy. That’s honest. That’s a holy kind of brave. Have you heard my chat with @jenhatmaker yet? If you're feeling like you’re wandering around without a map (or snacks), I hope this conversation feels like someone jogging up beside you and saying, “You too? I thought I was the only one.” | Kate Bowler
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The advice to "let it go" sounds wonderful, but we're also holding on to so much we can't live without. Join me to explore letting go in Words to Live By: https://app.ritual.io/kate-lettinggo | Kate Bowler
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