Grief makes us restless. It's a truth writer and @nytopinion editor Sarah Wildman describes so poignantly. Her daughter, Orli, was just 10 years old when she was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer. Orli lived with staggering courage—and more procedures and pain than most adults will ever face—until her death at 14. Sarah’s essays on grief and caregiving are among the most piercing, tender, and unsparing things I’ve ever read. And today's conversation on @everythinghappens
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Grief makes us restless. It's a truth writer and @nytopinion editor Sarah Wildman describes so poignantly. Her daughter, Orli, was just 10 years old when she was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare form of liver cancer. Orli lived with staggering courage—and more procedures and pain than most adults will ever face—until her death at 14. Sarah’s essays on grief and caregiving are among the most piercing, tender, and unsparing things I’ve ever read. And today's conversation on @everythinghappens
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OKAY THIS WAS A BIG DAY. What an opportunity to talk to cancer advocate and journalist superstar @Katiecouric. This lovely mini-documentary talks with a cancer patient, widow, and death doula about the toll of a cancer diagnosis. Thank you so much to @going_with_grace and @cocoscaravan for the chance to talk so openly about what it feels like when a world you love is ending. p.s. And thanks to @katiecouricmedia. You are the best of the best. | Kate Bowler
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OKAY THIS WAS A BIG DAY. What an opportunity to talk to cancer advocate and journalist superstar @Katiecouric. This lovely mini-documentary talks with a cancer patient, widow, and death doula about the toll of a cancer diagnosis. Thank you so much to @going_with_grace and @cocoscaravan for the chance to talk so openly about what it feels like when a world you love is ending. p.s. And thanks to @katiecouricmedia. You are the best of the best. | Kate Bowler
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"Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved
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"Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved
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a blessing for the day we mourn our dead (All Saints’ Day) o God, we have not been here before. sorrows old and new envelop us as we grieve in this new pandemic reality, without hugs and funerals, shared jokes and fresh tears, and graveside picnics to place flowers for those long departed. God, give us comfort that is bigger than all this, and love that is stronger than all this. God have mercy. Christ have mercy. Spirit have mercy. blessed are we who hold in our hearts our beloved family and fr
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a blessing for the day we mourn our dead (All Saints’ Day) o God, we have not been here before. sorrows old and new envelop us as we grieve in this new pandemic reality, without hugs and funerals, shared jokes and fresh tears, and graveside picnics to place flowers for those long departed. God, give us comfort that is bigger than all this, and love that is stronger than all this. God have mercy. Christ have mercy. Spirit have mercy. blessed are we who hold in our hearts our beloved family and fr
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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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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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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
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When, at 35, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with incurable cancer and given a few months to live, her vow to herself was "I want to be alive until I am not." Hers is a unique story—but every single one of us shares Kate’s condition: Limited time on this brutiful earth, and the haunting question: "How do I know if I’m doing this right?” Kate helps us explore the only question that really matters: How shall we spend our one precious life? This was not only one of my favorite podcast conversations, but
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When, at 35, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with incurable cancer and given a few months to live, her vow to herself was "I want to be alive until I am not." Hers is a unique story—but every single one of us shares Kate’s condition: Limited time on this brutiful earth, and the haunting question: "How do I know if I’m doing this right?” Kate helps us explore the only question that really matters: How shall we spend our one precious life? This was not only one of my favorite podcast conversations, but
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On her podcast "Everything Happens," Duke professor Kate Bowler discusses she's living with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis and hears from guests about finding the beauty in hardship. Subscribe here to listen: http://ow.ly/zCfn30ieuhm | Duke University
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A Blessing for Uncertainty: Blessed are you who live here. The space between simple categories and easy answers. You who wonder why this is your life, why you got this diagnosis, or why you still struggle with infertility, or why you haven't found your birth parents, or why you can't kick this addiction, or why your kids haven't come. Blessed are you who built a home on uneasy ground, who, despite your trying, your asking, your searchers haven't found the satisfying feeling of discovery and bles
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If you are the one whose life has been reordered, I’m so sorry. We put together a resource page for when ILLNESS HAPPENS—we hope it offers you some encouragement. On your team, always. Click on the link: https://katebowler.com/diagnosed-care-package/ | Kate Bowler
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a blessing when hope seems lost o God, hope is only a half-remembered dream behind a closed door, and I sit alone with grief and loss. o God, bring me out from these confines of despair, to where hope lives. God have mercy Christ have mercy Spirit have mercy My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, “Where is your God?” Psalm 42:3 God have mercy Christ have mercy Spirit have mercy "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." Psalm 30:5 blessed
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When I got sick, I got super in Lent as a season for me. For people on the losing team. For people who felt broken or angry or sad or unable to have a “Precious Moments” version of their faith. Nope, sorry self-help, but we need an extremely gritty faith. I’m just starting to realize, though, that I need Lent to be more than just a good account of the present. I need it to tell me more about the future. A story about who we can BE once we know that we need to be saved. | Kate Bowler
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Meet Kate. A divinity professor at Duke and a young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis ask why bad things happen and tries to love life - and God - without certainty, in her new book EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON (And Other Lies I've Loved). Out February 6. PRE-ORDER HERE: http://bit.ly/ordereverythinghappens | 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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Kate Bowler on Facing Death (and Retirees) | Soul Boom
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Diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer, Kate Bowler realized her expectations for health and happiness were based on a lie. Bowler is a Duke Divinity School associate professor of the history of Christianity and the author of "Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved." Read Bowler's op-ed: https://wapo.st/2MSNKDe?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.0ee8a3ec8969 | Washington Post Opinions
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I know this is the month when we feel sad and contemplate our existence as we begin to prepare for the death of Jesus, BUT I also feel very passionately about colonoscopies and preventative colon cancer screenings. Both can be true. | Kate Bowler
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When I was immuno-compromised, I was introduced to a whole new world of people who are fragile and scared of being stuck. Here’s a lot of feelings and a blessing for those wondering how to respond. | Kate Bowler
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Beyond the grief, the sorrow, the silence, love stays. | Kate Bowler
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Author Kate Bowler talks new book 'Joyful, Anyway' and optimism
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"And what reason is that?" said my husband #cancer #suffering #katebow...
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Life is magic. But this kind of magic takes roughly 2 hours to capture on film. In unrelated news, my iPhone is out of memory. | Kate Bowler
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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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WELCOME TO THE JOY OF MY LIFE! It's a new season of the podcast!! SEASON 8! This Tuesday! It's the place I go to cry and laugh and force people into friendships they may later regret. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. And truly, thank you so much for being our community. I feel so lucky that we are humans together. 🔗: bit.ly/theehpodcast | Kate Bowler
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"Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved | Kate Bowler | TED
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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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How Do You Keep Living When Loss Piles Up? With Eliane Pagels
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Palm Sunday is...so intense. Jesus arrives at the place where he will be killed. He is celebrated with makeshift palm branches and soon he will be jeered. We do not know what to worship and to love. And suffering--Jesus’ suffering and the suffering of this nation--exposes the huge disparity between what we were SUPPOSED to love...and what we did. The people suffering the most right now--health care warriors, hourly workers, the elderly and the fragile--are those we failed to care for. And this s
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Welcome to part three of myth-busting a "purpose-driven" life. Today's myth? Your life only counts if it’s capital-I Important. What if meaning isn’t in the mountaintop moments—but in the sandwich you made, the email you answered, the backyard hole you dug because… it just felt right? It doesn’t have to be impressive to be sacred. (It just has to be yours.) Follow for more cultural myth-ruining and gentle truth-telling. We’re just getting started. | Kate Bowler
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