<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Bowler, Kate]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Bowler, Kate]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/tilley/rss/search?query=Bowler%2C%20Kate&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:31:36 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Have A Beautiful, Terrible Day!]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &bull; Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the good&mdash;from the four-time New York Times bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I&rsquo;ve Loved) Kate Bowler believes that the cultural pressure to be cheerful and optimistic at all times has taken a toll on our faith. But what if we could find better language than forced positivity to express our hopes and our anxieties?&#160; Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day! is packed with bite-size reflections and action-oriented steps to help you get through the day, be it good, bad, or totally mediocre. This is a devotional for the rest of us&mdash;which is to say, the people who don&rsquo;t have magical lives that always work out for the best. As she composed these meditations during a season of chronic pain, Bowler understands how every day can be an obstacle course. She encourages us to develop our capacity to feel the breadth of our experiences. The better we are at identifying our highs and lows, the more resilient we become. Like modern-day psalms, Bowler&rsquo;s spiritual reflections look for the ways we can expand our capacity for courage, love, and honesty&mdash;while discovering divine moments with God. With bonus sections to use during the seasons of Advent and Lent, this is an easy book to read along with other people too.&#160; If you want to build your daily habit of spiritual attentiveness, this book is here to say: May all your days be lovely. But for those that aren&rsquo;t, have a beautiful, terrible day!]]></description><link>https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C1066321</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C1066321</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bowler, Kate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1066321051</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs &amp; In-betweens</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593860717/MC.GIF&amp;client=shorp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have A Beautiful, Terrible Day!]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER &bull; Witty, honest, and wise spiritual reflections that invite readers to embrace the bad, not just the good&mdash;from the four-time  New York Times  bestselling author of  Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I&rsquo;ve Loved)    Kate Bowler believes that the cultural pressure to be cheerful and optimistic at all times has taken a toll on our faith. But what if we could find better language than forced positivity to express our hopes and our anxieties?&#160;  Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!  is packed with bite-size reflections and action-oriented steps to help you get through the day, be it good, bad, or totally mediocre. This is a devotional for the rest of us&mdash;which is to say, the people who don&rsquo;t have magical lives that always work out for the best. As she composed these meditations during a season of chronic pain, Bowler understands how every day can be an obstacle course. She encourages us to develop our capacity to feel the breadth of our experiences. The better we are at identifying our highs and lows, the more resilient we become. Like modern-day psalms, Bowler&rsquo;s spiritual reflections look for the ways we can expand our capacity for courage, love, and honesty&mdash;while discovering divine moments with God. With bonus sections to use during the seasons of Advent and Lent, this is an easy book to read along with other people too.&#160; If you want to build your daily habit of spiritual attentiveness, this book is here to say:  May all your days be lovely. But for those that aren&rsquo;t, have a beautiful, terrible day!]]></description><link>https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C1073956</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C1073956</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bowler, Kate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1073956051</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs &amp; In-betweens</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593727683/MC.GIF&amp;client=shorp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Enough]]></title><description><![CDATA[In their first-ever devotional book, Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie offer 40ish short spiritual reflections on how we can make sense of life not as a pursuit of endless progress, but as a chronic condition. This book is a companion for when you want to stop feeling guilty that you're not living your best life now. Written gently and with humour, Bowler and Richie proffer fresh imagination for how truth, beauty, and meaning can be discovered amidst the chaos of life. Their words celebrate kindness, honesty, and interdependence in a culture that rewards ruthless individualism and blind optimism.]]></description><link>https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C993869</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C993869</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bowler, Kate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/993869051</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>40ish Devotionals for A Life of Imperfection</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593193686/MC.GIF&amp;client=shorp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Cure for Being Human]]></title><description><![CDATA["We all know, intellectually, that our time on Earth is limited. What would we change if we knew it viscerally? Kate Bowler was thirty-five when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Now that she's responded to immunotherapy Kate has to figure out how to make a new life between CT scans. Before she got sick, she'd accepted the very American idea that life was an endless horizon of possibilities. Now she has to figure out what to do within the limits of the time she has left ... Kate ... looks at the ways she has tried to wring meaning from her remaining time through anecdotes that range from the hilariously absurd--as when she attempts to rid the hospital gift shop of its copies of prosperity gospel guru Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now to the seriously painful. Breaking down time into efficient segments ... trying to live in the moment, weighing the meaning of work, and learning to discover what 'enough' feels like, Kate asks one of the most fundamental questions of all: How do we create meaning in our lives as we race against the clock?"--]]></description><link>https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C985524</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C985524</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bowler, Kate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/985524051</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>(and Other Truths I Need to Hear)</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593230770/MC.GIF&amp;client=shorp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything Happens for A Reason]]></title><description><![CDATA["A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty.  Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited doctors for three months before she was finally diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer.  As she navigates the aftermath of her diagnosis, Kate pulls the reader deeply into her life, which is populated with a colorful, often hilarious collection of friends, pastors, parents, and doctors, and shares her laser-sharp reflections on faith, friendship, love, and death. She wonders why suffering makes her feel like a loser and explores the burden of positivity. Trying to relish the time she still has with her son and husband, she realizes she must change her habit of skipping to the end and planning the next move. A historian of the "American prosperity gospel"--the creed of the mega-churches that promises believers a cure for tragedy, if they just want it badly enough--Bowler finds that, in the wake of her diagnosis, she craves these same "outrageous certainties." She wants to know why it's so hard to surrender control over that which you have no control. She contends with the terrifying fact that, even for her husband and child, she is not the lynchpin of existence, and that even without her, life will go on.  On the page, Kate Bowler is warm, witty, and ruthless, and, like Paul Kalanithi, one of the talented, courageous few who can articulate the grief she feels as she contemplates her own mortality"--]]></description><link>https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C824028</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S51C824028</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bowler, Kate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://tilley.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/824028051</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>And Other Lies I&apos;ve Loved</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780399592065/MC.GIF&amp;client=shorp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>