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Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

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Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens Studios

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Life isn't always bright and shiny, as Kate Bowler knows. Kate is a young mother, writer and professor who, age 35, Kate, was suddenly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer. In, warm, insightful conversations, Kate talks with people about what they've learned in dark times. Kate teaches at Duke Divinity School and is author of "Everything Happens (And Other Lies I've Loved)." For show notes, the transcript, and discussion questions: https://katebowler.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Kate Boehler.

0:03.7

I lived a pretty shiny life, but lately, not so much.

0:09.4

On one level, everything is perfect.

0:11.9

I married my high school sweetheart, I'm the mom of an amazing little boy.

0:17.0

I have my dream job as a professor at Duke Divinity School, where I am a historian of North

0:22.1

American religion.

0:23.1

Okay, maybe not everyone's dream, but it was my dream.

0:27.6

Perfect, right?

0:29.3

Except that life has been hard.

0:32.4

At 35, I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.

0:36.7

There was no history of cancer in my family and then, poof.

0:41.5

There I was, trying not to die.

0:44.8

I was watching my son learn to walk and trying to keep him away from the toxic chemotherapy

0:50.5

bag attached to my waist.

0:53.4

This podcast is about those times when you realize that your life does not look great

0:58.0

on Instagram.

0:59.0

It's about trying to figure out how to be a human being in a world that loves you more

1:04.8

when you are shiny and whole.

1:07.7

And what you learn when you aren't.

1:13.0

So I know it may sound difficult or depressing and you're thinking, please let me get away

1:17.8

from this now, but hold on a sec.

1:20.4

In this series, I have conversations with some wonderful and sometimes hilarious guests

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