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NEW Everything Happens for a Reason, and Other Lies I've Loved By Kate Bowler

Description: Brand NEW book: Everything Happens for a Reason, and Other Lies I've Loved By Kate Bowler Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune as a mark of God's disapproval. At thirty-five, everything in her life seems to point toward "blessing." She is thriving in her job, married to her high school sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with "a surge of determination." Even as this type of Christianity celebrates the American can-do spirit, it implies that if you "can't do" and succumb to illness or misfortune, you are a failure. Kate is very sick, and no amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live.

Price: 6 USD

Location: Franklin, Tennessee

End Time: 2024-12-14T21:18:26.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.63 USD

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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer

All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 30 Days

Refund will be given as: Money Back

Book Title: Everything Happens for a Reason : and Other Lies I've Loved

Number of Pages: 208 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2019

Topic: Diseases / Cancer, Christian Life / General, Personal Memoirs, Gastroenterology, Medical, Christian Life / Death, Grief, Bereavement

Item Height: 0.6 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Religion, Health & Fitness, Biography & Autobiography, Medical

Item Weight: 6 Oz

Author: Kate Bowler

Item Length: 8 in

Item Width: 5.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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