New York City TIMES BESTSELLER – “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on releasing when we can’t hang on, and on being confident even when we’re frightened.”– Lucy Kalanithi “Belongs on the rack alongside other great books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.”– Costs Gates NAMED ONE OF The Very Best BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a teacher at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian training, but she specializes in the research study of the success gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a true blessing from God and misery 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 sweetie, and enjoys life with her newborn son. Then she is identified with stage IV colon cancer. The possibility of her own death forces Kate to recognize that she has actually been tacitly signing up for the success gospel, dealing with the conviction that she can manage the shape of her life with “a surge of decision.” Even as this type of Christianity commemorates 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 quantity of positive thinking will shrink her growths. What does it mean to pass away, she questions, in a society that insists whatever takes place for a factor? Kate is removed of this certainty just to find that without it, life is difficult but stunning in a manner it never has actually been before. Frank and amusing, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she occupies passionately with a vibrant, typically amusing retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and physicians. Whatever Happens for a Factor informs her story, providing her profane, hard-won observations on dying and the methods it has taught her to live. Praise for Everything Occurs for a Reason “I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, stylish, and gripping– she’s like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate’s story sensation more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for?”– Glennon Doyle, # 1 New york city Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and president of Together Increasing
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