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Kate Bowler

Historian of American Christianity; professor at Duke Divinity School

United States · b. 1980

Canadian-American historian of the American prosperity gospel, diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer at thirty-five in 2015. She wrote about it for the New York Times and in Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved.

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Question What have you come to understand about what it means to be human? Values & belief read 8 other answers →
The movement has perfected a rarefied form of America’s addiction to self-rule, which denies much of our humanity: our fragile bodies, our finitude, our need to stare down our deaths (at least once in a while) and be filled with dread and wonder. At some point, we must say to ourselves, I’m going to need to let go.

Recorded The New York Times, Sunday Review, 13 February 2016 source ↗

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