About this Event
House of Hope welcomes Dr. Kate Bowler to our Sunday Series on Sunday, November 3 at 2 p.m.
Kate Bowler, Ph.D., a 4X New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and professor at Duke University, brings a unique perspective to her work. She delves into the cultural narratives we construct around success, suffering, and our capacity for change. In a world fraught with challenges and uncertainties, Kate Bowler stands out as a beacon of hope and humor, guiding others through their darkest moments with her resilience, wisdom, and infectious optimism.
As a speaker, Kate has a remarkable ability to ignite a spark of transformation within each listener. Her talks inspire them to embrace their vulnerabilities, discover purpose, and approach life with a newfound sense of meaning. To hear Kate Bowler speak is to embark on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth, an experience that leaves a lasting imprint on hearts and minds.
At age 35, she was unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, causing her to think in different terms about the research and beliefs she had been studying. She penned The New York Times bestselling memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved), which tells the story of her struggle to understand the personal and intellectual dimensions of the American belief that all tragedies are tests of character.
On her popular podcast, Everything Happens, Kate speaks with people like Malcolm Gladwell, Tig Notaro, Bryan Stevenson, Minka Kelly, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, and Katie Couric about what wisdom and truth they’ve uncovered during difficult circumstances. Kate’s work has received widespread media attention from The Today Show, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR. Her TED talk has been viewed more than 10 million times.
In her second bestselling memoir, No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear), Kate grapples with her diagnosis, ambition, and faith as she tries to come to terms with limitations in a culture that promises anything is possible.
Kate co-authored with producer Jessica Richie, Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection (2022), which takes what they have learned about our self-help-obsessed culture and share written reflections on what it would mean to embrace our imperfect, good enough lives. Kate and Jessica’s latest book is The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days. This book of blessings focuses on gratitude and hope while acknowledging our messy and imperfect lives.
In February 2024, Kate released Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day. In this much-anticipated book, Kate invites all of us to put aside the cultural pressure to be exhaustingly positive. Instead, we can learn to be as honest about the bad as the good. Kate shares funny and poignant moments in her own life while enduring a dark season of pain. She says, “What I want more than anything is to bless you and me right now and feel the truth of our realities without letting reality itself overwhelm us…So here’s to us having beautiful, terrible days.”
Funding for House of Hope's Sunday Series comes from the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Ministry for the House of Hope endowment fund. Learn more about the mission and ministries of The House of Hope Presbyterian Church at hohchurch.org.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The House of Hope Presbyterian Church, 797 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, United States
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