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Kate Bowler

出生: June 16, 1980 – London, England, United Kingdom

Kate Bowler is a Duke University professor and historian of American Christianity whose work examines prosperity gospel, suffering, faith, and resilience. She wrote Blessed, Everything Happens for a Reason, and No Cure for Being Human, and hosts the award-winning Everything Happens podcast. She is a four-time New York Times bestselling author.

传记与作者历程

Kate Bowler is a historian, writer, and professor whose work brings together academic study and public reflection on faith, suffering, and ordinary life. Raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in a family of academics, she came to Macalester College with an outsider’s curiosity about American culture and found her intellectual center in religious studies. She went on to earn a B.A. from Macalester, a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Duke University, later joining Duke Divinity School, where she teaches American religious history. ((https://www.macalester.edu/news/2024/11/everything-happens-the-gospel-according-to-kate-bowler-02/))

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名言

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I believe that in the darkness, even there, there will be beauty and there will be love
-TED Talk: Everything happens for a reason -- and other lies I've loved
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And now I get it. Life is a chronic condition
-Bless This Body
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But I’m here to look into your gorgeous eyes and say, hey, there are some things you can fix and some things you can’t. And it’s OK that life isn’t always better
-Bless This Body
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Then I started saying, so then what is possible today?
-Make Me A Gardener
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I hate optimists. But I do love deeply hopeful people
-Make Me A Gardener
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One of the reasons I love your brain and listening to you put all these hard things side by side, is there such a superhighway we create between the most important things that happen, like the most meaningful things that happen to us and then a desire to immediately simplify it into a series of lessons, and I am like one hundred percent anti-lessons because they’re, in my experience, usually the weaponized piety of the extremely certain
-Counting Your Somethings
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For it is our vulnerability that is the truest thing about us, the place where mutual connection is possible, where competition ends and community begins
-A Blessing for Being Human
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There is no cure for being human…but for each other, we are all good medicine
-A Blessing for Being Human
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Our lives are simply built with paper walls, and we need our neighbors and communities and one another to hold together our collective fragility
-In My Life, There’s No Cure For
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You are loved in all your particularity. Your people light up at the sound of your voice—your voice—with its quirks and humor, your eye-rolls and your weird snack preferences. You are not generic. You are irreplaceable
-You Are Loved

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"Kate Bowler’s memoir of faith in the face of a terminal cancer diagnosis has some exquisite and deeply moving prose"

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