Kate Bowler: Can Faith and Anger Coexist?

Soul Boom

Rainn Wilson

Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Kate Bowler, renowned author and professor, joins Rainn Wilson to explore the complexities of American Christian traditions and the nature of suffering. Bowler delves into her personal journey with stage four cancer, her struggles with the American healthcare system, offering profound insights into faith, resilience, and the misconceptions of positive thinking. Together, they discuss the dichotomy of American religious practices and the deep, often unspoken struggles that accompany a life of faith. Tune in for a heartfelt conversation filled with wisdom, humor, and authenticity. Thank you to our sponsors! Hoka: https://bit.ly/HokaSoulBoom Waking Up app (1st month free!): https://wakingup.com/soulboom Fetzer Institute: https://fetzer.org/ Sign up for our newsletter! https://soulboom.substack.com SUBSCRIBE to Soul Boom!! https://bit.ly/Subscribe2SoulBoom Watch our Clips: https://bit.ly/SoulBoomCLIPS Watch WISDOM DUMP: https://bit.ly/WISDOMDUMP Follow us! Instagram: http://instagram.com/soulboom TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@soulboom Sponsor Soul Boom: [email protected] Work with Soul Boom: [email protected] Send Fan Creations, Questions, Comments: [email protected] Produced by: Kartik Chainani Executive Produced by: Ford Bowers, Samah Tokmachi Spring Green Films Production Supervisor: Mike O'Brien Voicing Change Media Theme Music by: Marcos Moscat

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0:00.0	If you could distill all of your work and all of your study down, what do we learn about American Christian tradition in the last hundred years?
0:07.4	They exhaust themselves, believing that they have to do it on their own and that God is only obsessed with winners.
0:15.4	We just love winners.
0:17.4	It's like you have to be positive, think positive, perform a certain emotional mastery.
0:22.6	That's as a result of the rise of psychology in the last 100 years.
0:26.6	But we've taken it in a very American way and made it kind of a way of separating the winners from the losers.
0:31.6	The winners, emotionally equanimous.
0:35.6	The winners.
0:36.6	Well, Jesus loved the winners and only hung out with the winners.
0:39.3	It was a weird.
0:39.8	Oh, wait a minute.
0:40.9	It's the exact opposite.
0:46.0	Hey there.
0:46.8	It's me, Rain Wilson.
0:48.2	And I want to dig into the human experience.
0:50.5	I want to have conversations about a spiritual revolution.
0:53.8	Let's get deep with our favorite thinkers, friends, and entertainers about life, meaning, and idiocy.
1:00.8	Welcome to the Soul Boom podcast.
1:08.4	Bowler or bowler?
1:10.1	Bowler.
1:10.9	Right down the middle.
1:12.1	Wow.
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