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Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler is a writer and professor at Duke University’s Divinity School where she has dedicated her academic efforts to understanding the evolution of the Prosperity Gospel in megachurches. At age 35, her own faith was challenged with a stage four colon cancer diagnosis. She shares with Kelly how it led her to investigate the problematic nature of positivity and ways to grapple with death.

Kate Bowler

26m 9s

Kate Bowler is a writer and professor at Duke University’s Divinity School where she has dedicated her academic efforts to understanding the evolution of the Prosperity Gospel in megachurches. At age 35, her own faith was challenged with a stage four colon cancer diagnosis. She shares with Kelly how it led her to investigate the problematic nature of positivity and ways to grapple with death.

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    Arthur Brooks on the Formula for Happiness

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    Arthur Brooks is a professor at Harvard Business School, a columnist for The Atlantic, and the bestselling author of The Conservative Heart, among other publications. In this conversation with Kelly Corrigan, Arthur shares the recipe for cultivating happiness as it relates to Kate Bowler’s experience with maintaining faith in the midst of a stage four cancer diagnosis.

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