In today's episode of Everything Happens, I answer some of your best questions about Lent (Spoiler: It's a BIG BUMMER season.), life, and everything in between. THEN, I talk with @katelyntarver, whose music captures the tension of hope, disappointment, and what it means to embrace the mess of being human. She sings her song "Sh!t Happens" for me, and I'm thinking that maybe it's our new anthem?! It's jam-packed, baby! | Kate Bowler
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In today's episode of Everything Happens, I answer some of your best questions about Lent (Spoiler: It's a BIG BUMMER season.), life, and everything in between. THEN, I talk with @katelyntarver, whose music captures the tension of hope, disappointment, and what it means to embrace the mess of being human. She sings her song "Sh!t Happens" for me, and I'm thinking that maybe it's our new anthem?! It's jam-packed, baby! | Kate Bowler
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Finally, pickleball makes sense. The Coach K Interview: An Everything Happens Live Event on October 14th. Wanna be there?! Comment “Pickleball” for a link to buy tickets. #thingstodoindurham #coachk #dukeuniversity #durhamnc | Kate Bowler
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Finally, pickleball makes sense. The Coach K Interview: An Everything Happens Live Event on October 14th. Wanna be there?! Comment “Pickleball” for a link to buy tickets. #thingstodoindurham #coachk #dukeuniversity #durhamnc | Kate Bowler
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'Everything happens for a reason' -- and other lies I've loved - Kate Bowler | Talks About
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'Everything happens for a reason' -- and other lies I've loved - Kate Bowler | Talks About
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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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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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LENT DAY 36 What help do you need in real time? Who can you ask? I imagine there are more people willing to jump in than you think. 💛 | Kate Bowler
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LENT DAY 36 What help do you need in real time? Who can you ask? I imagine there are more people willing to jump in than you think. 💛 | Kate Bowler
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Does everything we do—every job, every hobby, every mildly traumatic Tuesday—have to be redeemed for some grand purpose? When did existing become a group project? One that needed monetization and commodification? | Kate Bowler
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Does everything we do—every job, every hobby, every mildly traumatic Tuesday—have to be redeemed for some grand purpose? When did existing become a group project? One that needed monetization and commodification? | Kate Bowler
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Pull up a seat—let’s talk about the language of purpose. Somewhere along the way, we started believing that every moment has to be meaningful, every choice strategic, every step part of a master plan. But what if that’s too much pressure for a human life? Meaning, more often than not, is something we discover in hindsight. The ordinary moments—the ones that feel forgettable—are quietly stitching together a life. A sacred one. So maybe purpose doesn’t have to be grand to be good. Maybe it just ha
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Pull up a seat—let’s talk about the language of purpose. Somewhere along the way, we started believing that every moment has to be meaningful, every choice strategic, every step part of a master plan. But what if that’s too much pressure for a human life? Meaning, more often than not, is something we discover in hindsight. The ordinary moments—the ones that feel forgettable—are quietly stitching together a life. A sacred one. So maybe purpose doesn’t have to be grand to be good. Maybe it just ha
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You asked, and I have answered. This is the video you can send to the next person who tells you that your loved one is "in a better place." Template email: "Dear sir or ma'am, I know you mean so well! I do. Also, just spitballing here, but if that place was really so much better, do you want to go first? Just joking just joking PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO. Yours sincerely, The Heartbroken Doing My Best Right Now | 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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"Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved
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Ok, it's 42 seconds. DETAILS. Moral of the story? Lent is not a 40-day glow-up, and don't you forget it. | Kate Bowler
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You don't have to fix it all at once. (You most likely can't.) Just start. Your small efforts are better than no efforts. And I think that's beautiful. I swear. | 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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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
22.6K viewsFeb 6, 2018
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Because obviously, true happiness, purpose, and alignment have always been just four(ish) easy steps away. Follow me for more cultural myth-busting. | Kate Bowler
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When the things meant to hold us don’t—what then? Today's Substack post isn't a pep talk. But it is my reckoning with the small and the faithful, anyway. | 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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Kate Bowler’s story of coping with cancer and how it changed her faith
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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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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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No gold stars required. Just existing, eating snacks, and resisting the urge to optimize our personalities. | Kate Bowler
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Want to feel hopeful today? WELL. Then you will want to listen to this man be himself. @nickkristof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is just as smart, delightful, and charismatic as you would hope he'd be. We got to chat in front of live audience in Indiana over the summer and waiting this long to air it HAS BEEN HARD. We talk about how his career in journalism has broken his heart wide open, what it means to actually make a difference, and how to have hope. He gets it done, people. He
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@drbeckyatgoodinside said it best, "We don't need to optimize for happiness." We need space to feel it all—boredom, anger, the grocery store cry. We’re not chasing happy. We’re learning how to be whole. | Kate Bowler
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Instead of thinking of love as purely emotion, let's think of love as service. It's something we do, not just feel. It's how we can exist in a world that is tragic and chaotic. It's deciding to love our people & communities harder, even though it can feel thankless, terrifying, and uncomfortable. "We are all healers because we have the ability to love." | Kate Bowler
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Let's be honest, our podcast guests write some bangers. Here are some tiny summaries of each book and a rating for how hard you may or may not cry while reading them... 📚 "The Wives" by @simonegorrindo - An epic memoir of what it means to be a military spouse. And what it means to love someone whose job takes them far away. 😢😢😢 📚 "Good Soil" by @byjeffchu - Yes, this is a book about compost, but it's so much more than that. Under the rot and the discarded scraps, there is so much beauty and
5.1K viewsApr 28, 2025
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Here’s to the saints among us—the ones banging their flashlight on the palm of their hand, hoping it’ll spark to life long enough to take one more step toward hope. Not ideal. But it’s working...kind of. | 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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The world is on fire and it always was. Here we are in the disorientation of Pentecost, where the Holy Spirit comes down like fire to a world on fire and promises us God's presence as an advocate and comforter. Peace and a fierce commission to act on each other's behalf. Pentecost reminds us that the work of God is not yet done and that like the Holy Spirit, we are to come alongside each other to right wrongs and speak loudly on each other's behalf. For all those who labor in the hard work of en
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Not a life-hack girlie. Just out here trying to make one wise choice at a time… like not impulse-moving to a goat farm. 🐐 This week: PRUDENCE. (No, not the 18th-century baby name. The virtue.) Follow along for more unsexy ways to live a meaningful life. ✨ | Kate Bowler
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