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Lädt ... Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Lovedvon Kate Bowler
  
Top Five Books of 2022 (517) To Read (560) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.   ) featherbooks | May 7, 2024 |   ) Sana97 | Apr 10, 2024 |  Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. ) KelAnemone | Feb 2, 2024 | )1  Sharquin | Sep 13, 2023 | In the way that the Friday of holy week is called good, Kate Fowler's story is good: difficult, personal, painful, surprising, uncomfortable, how-could-this-happen, is-this-the-end kind of good. Honest and raw in relating the frustration, sadness, hold on to hope, some people should just shut up reality of a terminal diagnosis and clinical trial treatments, Kate also examines some of the beliefs she unwittingly picked up from her years of studying prosperity gospel congregations for her dissertation. Her voice is still in my head as I sort out the realization that I too have swallowed some of the juju of the prosperity gospel: you will reap what you sew. And if you harvest illness, pain, confusion...well, you must have done something wrong, sweetie. If you do it right, you'll be victorious, healthy, successful! Sorrow will not come your way. But Kate is clear—life doesn't work that way. Life is a privilege, not a reward. Listen to Kate talk about her work here. ( ) rebwaring | Aug 14, 2023 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? ??A meditation on sense-making when there??s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can??t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we??re terrified.???Lucy Kalanithi ??Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi??s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande??s Being Mortal.???Bill Gates NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of the prosperity gospel, a creed that sees fortune as a blessing from God and misfortune 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 sweetheart, and loves life with her newborn son. Then she is diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. The prospect of her own mortality forces Kate to realize that she has been tacitly subscribing to the prosperity gospel, living with the conviction that she can control the shape of her life with ??a surge of determination.? Even as this type of Christianity celebrates 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 amount of positive thinking will shrink her tumors. What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason? Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live. Praise for Everything Happens for a Reason ??I fell hard and fast for Kate Bowler. Her writing is naked, elegant, and gripping??she??s like a Christian Joan Didion. I left Kate??s story feeling more present, more grateful, and a hell of a lot less alone. And what else is art for????Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestsell Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorKate Bowlers Buch Everything Happens for a Reason wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten.  Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
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