Kate Bowler was 35 years old and wrestling with a cancer diagnosis when she worked to find optimism amid challenges. Now in remission, the New York Times bestselling author joined TODAY to talk about how to overcome tough times and experience joy and sadness together.
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Kate Bowler was 35 years old and wrestling with a cancer diagnosis when she worked to find optimism amid challenges. Now in remission, the New York Times bestselling author joined TODAY to talk about how to overcome tough times and experience joy and sadness together.
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In the year of our Lord 2025, I am reclaiming the phrase "basic b!*ch." That's all. Thank you. | Kate Bowler
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In the year of our Lord 2025, I am reclaiming the phrase "basic b!*ch." That's all. Thank you. | Kate Bowler
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Does everything we do—every job, every hobby, every mildly traumatic Tuesday—have to be redeemed for some grand purpose? When did existing become a group project? One that needed monetization and commodification? | Kate Bowler
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Does everything we do—every job, every hobby, every mildly traumatic Tuesday—have to be redeemed for some grand purpose? When did existing become a group project? One that needed monetization and commodification? | Kate Bowler
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I know you're feeling weary. You've got to be. But here's some good news (or maybe just comforting news?): Advent is a season that reminds us of the light that overcomes the darkness. It is a time to reflect and pause, especially now when everything around you tells you to go, buy, and be more. Over the four weeks of Advent, we'll discuss the promises of truth, compassion, restoration, and justice. Each day includes assigned scripture, a devotional, reflection questions, and a closing prayer. If
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I know you're feeling weary. You've got to be. But here's some good news (or maybe just comforting news?): Advent is a season that reminds us of the light that overcomes the darkness. It is a time to reflect and pause, especially now when everything around you tells you to go, buy, and be more. Over the four weeks of Advent, we'll discuss the promises of truth, compassion, restoration, and justice. Each day includes assigned scripture, a devotional, reflection questions, and a closing prayer. If
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What do we do when our faith systems fail us? How do we pick up the pieces after the certainties we've clung to turn to dust? In this very special Holy Week episode, I sit down with one of my most beloved friends (and fellow Canadian!), @sarahbessey. She's a writer and faith leader who understands what it feels like to watch faith fall apart AND how to come out the other side changed. This week is heavy. But I'm reminded, especially after this conversation, that God sits with us in the heaviness
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What do we do when our faith systems fail us? How do we pick up the pieces after the certainties we've clung to turn to dust? In this very special Holy Week episode, I sit down with one of my most beloved friends (and fellow Canadian!), @sarahbessey. She's a writer and faith leader who understands what it feels like to watch faith fall apart AND how to come out the other side changed. This week is heavy. But I'm reminded, especially after this conversation, that God sits with us in the heaviness
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✨ Inbox zero. ✨ Protein pancakes. ✨ Enlightened parenting. ✨ Then my body was like: LOL, no. So now I’m aiming for one task, no tab explosions, and maybe a walk. Join me?? | Kate Bowler
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✨ Inbox zero. ✨ Protein pancakes. ✨ Enlightened parenting. ✨ Then my body was like: LOL, no. So now I’m aiming for one task, no tab explosions, and maybe a walk. Join me?? | Kate Bowler
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Tension is high. Trust is low. The world is an absolute mess. And somehow, we are still called to love one another—not in theory, but in practice. In today's episode of Everything Happens, poet, theologian, conflict mediator, and my dear friend @padraigotuama, explains how we can practice sitting in the discomfort AND STILL love people. SPOILER: We already know how to do it, and we likely do it more than we think. Whew. | Kate Bowler
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When you can’t brush your own hair. Or stand up by yourself. Or feed yourself lunch. That’s when love becomes unbearably specific. This week on @EverythingHappens, I talk with the wise and hilarious @catherinewman about what she’s learned from volunteering in hospice, parenting grown children, and how her gorgeous new novel Wreck (out today!) illuminates the impossible and the ordinary. It’s a conversation about the kindness we extend when we can’t fix anything. About the way love shows up in wh
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LENT DAY 30 What busy thought is keeping you up at night, lovey? Can we set it down for just today? | Kate Bowler
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Ok, it's 42 seconds. DETAILS. Moral of the story? Lent is not a 40-day glow-up, and don't you forget it. | Kate Bowler
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No gold stars required. Just existing, eating snacks, and resisting the urge to optimize our personalities. | Kate Bowler
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LENT DAY 5. I know today isn't the Lent-iest day of Lent, but it is the first Monday of Lent, so LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE, SHALL WE? What is the kindest compliment you've received lately? | Kate Bowler
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Here’s to the saints among us—the ones banging their flashlight on the palm of their hand, hoping it’ll spark to life long enough to take one more step toward hope. Not ideal. But it’s working...kind of. | Kate Bowler
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We love Mary Oliver around here. But sometimes, we literally can't just lay in the grass. (yes stains, but also LIFE, BILLS, CHILDCARE, WHAT TO MAKE FOR DINNER, ETC.) In today's episode of Everything Happens, I sit down with my dear friend @byjeffchu. Not only is he an amazing pastor with a passion for compost (yes, compost), but he also reminds us that there is beauty in being small in a world that is so, so big. His latest book, "Good Soil," is all about what it means to cultivate hope, even i
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Raise your hand if you're "the fixer." The one who holds everything together. Makes the plans. Predicts every outcome (and acts accordingly). Carries the weight, emotionally and physically.🙋‍♀️ But what happens when that strength becomes a shield? One that protects you from yourself? In today's episode of Everything Happens with Amanda Doyle of the "We Can Do Hard Things" podcast, we talk about the pitfalls of fixing so hard it feels like control, cancer, parenting, and literally everything in
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Grab a pen and paper—you’re going to want to take notes during today’s episode! I sit down with the one and only @drbeckyatgoodinside to talk about parenting in all its beautiful, maddening glory. We discuss how to raise emotionally healthy kids with realistic expectations about the world, without becoming a human doormat (hello, boundaries), how to handle conflict without spiraling (again, hello boundaries), and how to stay mostly sane while doing it. This episode is for parents, caregivers, te
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It’s church—but make it child-sized. I was walking around cathedrals in Sweden and I saw a perfect and well-executed idea: kid’s church. Complete with candles, robes and...a coffin. Did I see a couple kids marry their dolls and then later host a tasteful burial? I did. Isn’t that genius? First of all, hilarious. Wouldn’t it be great if we all had a sense of humor about church. But I loved how even the smallest hearts are invited to play with big questions: how we live, how we give, how we rememb
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Advent does not invite us to be optimists. It invites us to be people who hope. | Kate Bowler
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When the things meant to hold us don’t—what then? Today's Substack post isn't a pep talk. But it is my reckoning with the small and the faithful, anyway. | Kate Bowler
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LENT DAY 40 Blessed are you with your Easter outfit laid out, unsure how everything will be perfectly solved by the morning. But today we say with clear, loud voices: our hearts may ache, but our God lives. | Kate Bowler
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We are in a caregiving crisis. Not enough help. Too little pay. No real safety net. And those who do the work—the diaper-changers, hand-holders, pill-counters, appointment-makers—are often running on fumes. After spending time with @aijenp, I’ve never been more certain: this is holy work, and we need to care for the caregivers. Ai-jen is fighting like a person who knows what’s at stake (because she does). She’s organizing, educating, pushing for the kind of policies that could actually support a
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Welcome to part three of myth-busting a "purpose-driven" life. Today's myth? Your life only counts if it’s capital-I Important. What if meaning isn’t in the mountaintop moments—but in the sandwich you made, the email you answered, the backyard hole you dug because… it just felt right? It doesn’t have to be impressive to be sacred. (It just has to be yours.) Follow for more cultural myth-ruining and gentle truth-telling. We’re just getting started. | Kate Bowler
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LENT DAY 33 Sending so much love to all you who are missing someone. I don’t know how, but God promises to come up close to the brokenhearted. May you feel that presence today. God, be here with us all now. | Kate Bowler
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Lent invites us to soften - to clear out what's heavy, let go of what hardens us, and see the people around us with a little more grace. "Generous interpretation" means assuming a sense of understanding and empathy, even when it would be easier not to. And I love how @sharonsaysso makes the point that joy can grow if we try not to perceive everything like a slight. The short reply wasn't personal. The person who cut you off in traffic might be having a terrible day. Maybe the holiest thing we ca
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Staying soft is its own kind of miracle. When it’s easier to go numb. When the news is too much. When your people need more than you feel like you have. When you’d rather protect your heart than let it break again. And still— you answered the text. you let yourself cry. you said “I love you” first. you asked for help. you forgave, again. you made soup. This is what it means to live with an open heart in a hurting world. Advent starts Sunday. A season for watching and waiting. For staying tender,
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Want to feel hopeful today? WELL. Then you will want to listen to this man be himself. @nickkristof is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is just as smart, delightful, and charismatic as you would hope he'd be. We got to chat in front of live audience in Indiana over the summer and waiting this long to air it HAS BEEN HARD. We talk about how his career in journalism has broken his heart wide open, what it means to actually make a difference, and how to have hope. He gets it done, people. He
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You don't have to fix it all at once. (You most likely can't.) Just start. Your small efforts are better than no efforts. And I think that's beautiful. I swear. | Kate Bowler
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LENT DAY 31 Bless you in all your anxiousness today, my dears. (Because “casting your cares” somewhere else isn’t always possible, is it?) | Kate Bowler
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