Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Latest Episodes

Michael Ignatieff: Where We Turn For Meaning

March 28, 2023 - 41:41
Historian and Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff explores the cracks in our seamless worldviews… or at least the worldviews we...

Paulina Porizkova: Complicated Grief and Complicated Love

March 21, 2023 - 35:32
Supermodel Paulina Porizkova has been in the public eye all her life. But it has been a rollercoaster of soaring successes and deep...

Tom Long: Number Our Days

March 14, 2023 - 41:48
The Reverend Tom Long wrote the book on funerals. No, really. When grief threatens to swallow us whole, Tom reminds us of our place in a...

About The Show

Life isn't always bright and shiny, as Kate Bowler knows. Kate is a young mother, writer and professor who, at age 35, was suddenly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer. In, warm, insightful, often funny conversations, Kate talks with people about what they've learned in difficult times. Kate teaches at Duke Divinity School and is author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) and No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear). Find her online at @katecbowler.

More Episodes

Michael Ignatieff: Where We Turn For Meaning

March 28, 2023 - 41:41
Historian and Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff explores the cracks in our seamless worldviews… or at least the worldviews we...

Paulina Porizkova: Complicated Grief and Complicated Love

March 21, 2023 - 35:32
Supermodel Paulina Porizkova has been in the public eye all her life. But it has been a rollercoaster of soaring successes and deep...

Tom Long: Number Our Days

March 14, 2023 - 41:48
The Reverend Tom Long wrote the book on funerals. No, really. When grief threatens to swallow us whole, Tom reminds us of our place in a...

Elaine Pagels: Love Pulls You Forward

March 7, 2023 - 39:60
Over thirty years ago, Elaine Pagels’ young son and husband died within the same year. In this tender conversation, Kate and Elaine...

Frank Bruni: Adapting to Loss

February 28, 2023 - 41:31
Every problem New York Times columnist Frank Bruni faced had a simple fix. Doctors offered reasonable solutions for reasonable problems....

Beth Moore: Back to the Beginning

February 21, 2023 - 51:58
Beth Moore has been in the limelight for almost thirty years, but during that time, she revealed very little about her formative family...