Kate Bowler (born 1980) is a Canadian academic and writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1] Bowler is currently an associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School.[2]
Bowler's first book entitled Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel was published in 2013.[7] In 2018 she published Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I've Loved),[8][9][10][11][12][13][14] which was a New York Times hardcover nonfiction best seller.[15]
Her third book, The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities (Princeton Press), was published in 2019.[16] Bowler also hosts a podcast entitled Everything Happens.[17]
Her memoir, No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear), was published in 2021, which was followed by a devotional called Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection, which she co-authored with her podcast producer Jessica Richie.[18][19] In 2023, Bowler and Richie co-authored The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days.[20][21]
Personal life
Bowler married Toban Penner, her high school classmate, in 2002. Together they have a son, Zach.[22]
In 2015, she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer,[22] which was the basis of her memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I've Loved).
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