Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, (Hardcover)

from jwrudn

Kate Bowler is an assistant professor in the Duke Divinity School. She has a young son and a devoted husband. A Christian raised in a Mennonite town, she does research on the prosperity gospel: a belief often espoused in megachurches that says the prosperity indicates the favor of God. The unpros...

from akblanchard

In a memoir that can only be described as "plucky", Mennonite wife, mother and college professor Kate Bowler takes readers through her journey with colon cancer. In the beginning, the focus is very much on Kate herself, her adorable friends and family, and her witty observations about parenting a...

from Susan.Macura

The title of this book drew me to it because I do not believe that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes bad things happen to people for no reason at all and nothing can be done to change this fact. In this book, the author is diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer. She is a person bad t...

from RaucousRain

I do not share the author's religious beliefs, however I enjoyed reading her story. It's a memoir about dying – and yet it is even more a story about living with, in the author's case, cancer. I found the emotional story to be filled with remarkable strength and humor. It did not make me cry, alt...

from hikatie

A lovely, quick read on struggling through the prospect of death and through the ironic lens of the prosperity gospel. While it may resonate with me particularly right now after the loss of several family members in the last year, and in the middle of the pandemic, most people will have experienc...