Kate Bowler explains Everything happens for a reason

After being diagnosed with stage IV cancer at age 35. Duke tenured professor and author Kate Bowler launched a national conversation about why it feels so difficult to speak frankly about suffering. She delves into how we live and cope with pain and suffering in Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved, a New York Timesbestselling memoir, and in her popular podcast, Everything Happens. She is also the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, which received widespread media and academic attention as the first history of a movement based on divine promises of health, wealth and happiness.

She has appeared on NPR and The TODAY Show, Amanpour & Company as well as in the New York Times, Washington Post and TIME Magazine. Her work has also been praise by a wide variety of religious and political publications. From liberal print media to conservative talk radio.

In this powerful talk, she reflects on being diagnose with stage IV cancer at the age of 35 and how it challenged her beliefs about why good things happen to good people.

Bowler delves into the cultural and religious clichés that attempt to explain suffering and success. She grapples with the idea that everything happens for a reason. A phrase often used to provide comfort during difficult times. However, her own experience with cancer led her to question this simplistic view.

Bowler’s talk reminds us that life is both beautiful and hard. Even in the darkness, there is beauty and love. Certainty may elude us, but our capacity to connect with others and find meaning in our shared experiences remains.

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