Kate Bowler

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

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Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Kate Bowler, PhD is a three-time New York Times bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and an Associate Professor of American Religious History at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we're capable of change. She is the author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel and The Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, she penned the New York Times bestselling memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I've Loved), No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear) and her latest written with her co-producer, Jessica Richie, Good Enough: 40ish devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Kate hosts the Everything Happens podcast where, in warm, insightful, often funny conversations, she talks with people like Malcolm Gladwell and Anne Lamott about what they've learned in difficult times. She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her family and continues to teach do-gooders at Duke Divinity School. Follow Bob: @bobgoff Follow Kim: @kimberly.stuart.writes Follow Kate: @katecbowler Learn more about Kate and purchase her latest book: katebowler.com/

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0:00.0	Access more.
0:08.3	Hey everybody, it's Bob Goff here and welcome to the writing room.
0:12.7	And I'm with my friend, Kim Stewart.
0:15.8	Hello, Kim.
0:16.7	You there, Bob.
0:17.4	So good to be here today.
0:19.3	Yes, this is a podcast that's kind of like the off branch of Dream Big, where we talk to writers who is ambition is to get beautiful words into the world.
0:30.2	And we have Kate Boller to with us today. And Kate, how are you doing today?
0:35.2	Hi. Oh, my gosh. I'm so glad to be here.
0:37.7	I'm glad we're talking.
0:39.0	Tell us a little bit about you for those that haven't met you in your words or in person.
0:44.4	Tell us like what's it feel like to be you?
0:47.5	It's very historical because I'm a historian.
0:51.3	But yeah, I teach at a seminary at Duke University.
0:54.0	And I write kind of more, so I write
0:58.6	sort of historical books and I write more devotionally, personally, memory books because I've kind of
1:04.9	had a rough road. So I try to incorporate the sort of cultural observations I have with a more personal story of being a Christian
1:12.6	and knowing what it's like to suffer in a culture that doesn't always love it when we talk about
1:18.8	that. Yeah, we, for those of you that have been tracking with us as we go through authorship and
1:25.1	how do you frame an idea and how would you make that culturally relevant?
1:29.7	Have some authenticity, talk about in a memo style, like some of how that impacted you, but point
1:36.0	towards some other things, both literature, history, other waypoints that would be helpful
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