A podcast from the Summer of 2015, featuring Kate Bowler introducing us to her 2013 book, BLESSED: A History of The American Prosperity Gospel. It was not that long after that session that Kate was unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at the age of 35, and her pitch battle with that cancer began. That journey is chronicled in her books Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I’ve loved) from 2018, and more recently No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) from 2021. In between those two books, Kate also saw The Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities come into print in 2019.
With many from our community reading No Cure for Being Human, we thought this a good time to revisit this ideaExchange podcast. Do note that we recorded this talk in a cafe and bookstore, so there is some background noise, particularly in the opening few minutes.
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