Kate Bowler
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285 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
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Kate Bowler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like it's a it it tells us about our own goodness in a situation that doesn't remind us of our own goodness.
So sometimes people can have it like watching a rainbow and
good for them.
But normally it will it will be in a time in which there's
multiple kinds of feelings going on.
And the the reason why we'll then get really like teary or surprise is it's contradicting some other fact.
Like, well this shouldn't have been.
Yeah.
I mean, what and like it could be sometimes when you look at your kid and you just didn't think that they would ever be in your life.
Yeah.
And you can watch them light up a part of you that's like, how did a stranger move into my house?
And I gave him a name and now he lives here.
I mean, I think I think the reason why it's a surprise is it comes into a place that we can't engineer.
Yeah.
However, and this is the only part that you'll like, Ryan, is that you can also cultivate a capacity for joy.
You can be someone that it's more and more likely to happen to.
I think it will also be for reasons you will like.
Okay.
And a lot of it is I mean, I think you have to start with a place of pretty radical acceptance of what is.
And this is where the huge bummerness of stoicism and Christianity come together.
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