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Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler is a three-time New York Times–bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and associate professor of American religious history at Duke University. 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 thirty-five, 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 she talks with people about what they’ve learned in difficult times. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her family.

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