Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Episodes
Matthew McConaughey: Stories We Tell Ourselves
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes there are stories about ourselves that just need to be true, even if they aren't. Stories about our ancestors or younger selves that help to...
Anne Lamott: Loved and Chosen
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do with a world that is full of things to fear? People we won’t please. Kids who die. Parents who don’t change. Writer Anne Lamott doe...
Dani Shapiro: Family Secrets
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who are we when we can't answer where we're from? Who are we when we can't locate ourselves on family trees or on familiar religious traditions or amo...
Father Greg Boyle: The Case for Hope
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are some people who see need and, rather than feeling stuck by the magnitude of the world's pain, they move toward it. Today's guest is one of t...
Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Love Big
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is all about love—the loves that constitute us, the loves that break our hearts, and the loves that keep us going. Actress, produc...
Everything Happens Trailer - Season 6
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
People love to pretend that there are simple formulas for living your best life. Now eat this and you won't get sick. Find that love and you'll never ...
Ask Kate Anything: Season Five Finale
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do you get through a terrible day? What should you not say to someone with cancer? What keeps you believing in God? We thought it might be fun to ...
Nikki DeLoach: A Not-So Hallmark Christmas
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic introduced many to living with uncertainty. But for some, uncertainty has always been their norm. Actress Nikki Deloach has starred in se...
Michele Harper: Beauty in the Breaking
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emergency Rooms are the theater of life itself. For ER Dr. Michele Harper, work has become a calling—to bear witness to people’s problems both lar...
Christie Watson: Bless the Nurses
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the core of nursing is the ability to love a stranger, to care indiscriminately. Christie Watson was a nurse in the UK for 20 years before she bega...
Samantha Irby: I'm Doing My Best (Life Now)
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Though magazines and movie stars try to convince us otherwise, we aren’t all living our BEST LIFE NOW. When humor writer Samantha Irby lost both of ...
Jan Richardson: Stubborn Hope
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be blessed? If you were to scroll through social media, you'd assume that "blessed" are the ones with gorgeous, matching families...
Abigail Marsh: Extraordinary Empathy
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are some people more empathetic than others? By studying those on the opposite end of the compassion spectrum—those with psychopathy—researcher Dr...
Bishop Michael Curry: The Power of Ordinary Love
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes it feels like the world is irreparably broken. A climate crisis leading to more hurricanes, fires, and melting glaciers. A political season ...
Susan Burton: Bless This Body
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are some secrets we'd rather not tell, but that eat us alive anyway. Writer Susan Burton was trapped in an eating disorder with no good name. To...
Victoria Sweet: Medicine with a Soul
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do doctors, nurses, and other caring professionals keep their hearts soft when there are forces that make it hard to stay that way? With her radic...
Will Willimon: Your Work is a Calling
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to be called to something? What if that job wears you thin? What if you think you've aged out of your vocation? In this episode, Kat...
Lanecia Rouse Tinsley: When Hope Seems Lost
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when hope feels lost? Abstract artist Lanecia Rouse Tinsley is no stranger to the hopelessness that comes with grief. In extended isola...
Mary Pipher: The Art of Aging
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who are we as we age? Our culture has such poor language for the who-we-are-ness across time. The ways we grow and the things that threaten to diminis...
Morgan Harper Nichols: Blessed Are The Mirrors
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We have thick cultural scripts for what is deemed inspirational and it usually goes like this: You can do it. Never give up. Everything you need is in...
Shauna Niequist: Spread Too Thin
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our lives have shrunk and our choices have been dramatically restricted. But the obligations never stopped, did they? How do we get off the achievemen...
Ken Carter: Living Alongside Fear
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it feel like to really live? Some people jump out of airplanes. Others prefer for their feet to stay on the floor. Some seek out the feeling...
Kristen Howerton: World's Okayest Mom
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Parenting isn't always Instagram-worthy, but the American myth of perfectionism rarely shows that messy middle. Kristen Howerton, mom of four, therapi...
Rachael Denhollander: The Pursuit of Justice
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do we do when the institutions that are supposed to protect us, fail? As a child, Rachael Denhollander was sexually abused by USA Gymnastics team...
Ray Hinton: The Sun Does Shine
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Hinton spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. With the help of justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson, Ray won his release in 2015. I...
Justin Yopp & Don Rosenstein: The Magic of WE
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When a group of young moms died around the same time, clinicians Justin Yopp and Don Rosenstein wanted to refer their widowed spouses to a grief suppo...
Heather Lanier: Whole and Holy
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if your life hasn’t turn out like you thought it would? When writer Heather Lanier’s daughter was born with a rare genetic syndrome, she lear...
Timothy Omundson & Joel McHale: Flying Buttresses
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Timothy Omundson knows what it feels like to have well-made plans come apart after he suffered a massive stroke at the height of his acting career. Ka...
Jason Rosenthal: Blank Space
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Jason Rosenthal’s wife died, she left him a gift that he couldn’t even have known to ask for—in the form of a viral Modern Love article. To...
Sarah Bessey: Ordinary Miracles
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Bessey speaks right to the soft spot where our deepest pain and deepest hope meet. The place where in the bleakest of nights we whisper, What if...
Hillary McBride: Living Inside Our Bodies
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is fear avoidable? What does this emotion do to our bodies and minds? In this episode, Kate speaks with psychologist Hillary McBride on the importance...
Mia Birdsong: Community as a Verb
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There's a story we're told about how we should save ourselves through sheer grit. But many fall on the other side of that success metric. In this epis...
Wes Moore: Fork in the Road
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Moore had a rough childhood growing up in Baltimore. His father died when he was a child, he struggled in school and was arrested for vandalism be...
Gary Haugen: Joy is The Oxygen
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Certain people decide to make other people's pain their own. Gary Haugen, founder and CEO of International Justice Mission, is one of those people. In...
Wajahat Ali: Make Me A Gardener
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wajahat Ali was about to give a TED talk on the global case for having more kids, when he received news no parent should ever hear. Kate and Waj speak...
David Fajgenbaum: Hope Wears Sneakers
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of one young doctor’s race against the clock as he searches for a cure for his own rare disease that brought him to the brink of d...
Lori Gottlieb: Does My Pain Count?
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do we find joy and connection when tragedy surrounds us? In this episode, Kate speaks with bestselling author and psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb ab...
Glennon Doyle: The Love Bridge
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We need guides to walk with us when life goes a little off-script. In this episode, Kate speaks with bestselling author Glennon Doyle about unlearning...
Sunita Puri: The Uncertainty Specialist
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pain is like a geography—one that isn't foreign to palliative care physician, Dr. Sunita Puri. Kate and Sunita speak about needing new language for ...
The Emergency Button
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When fear is overwhelming, sometimes you need to press the button—the emergency button. In this special episode, Kate gets real with the people that...
Ari Johnson: More than Enough
03 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes everything is possible. Sometimes nothing is possible. How do you know the difference? Dr. Ari Johnson works to change the infant and mothe...
Angela Duckworth: Finding the Margins
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Psychologist Angela Duckworth studies the significance of grit. There are those who experience a difficult circumstance and scrape by, and there are t...
Vivek Murthy: The Loneliness Epidemic
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy embarked on a listening tour to determine what was ailing Americans. The answer surprised him. In this soulful con...
Jen Hatmaker: The Preacher's Wife
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Author and speaker Jen Hatmaker ruled the Christian marketplace as the evangelical darling. But when her theology shifted, she learned how harsh the p...
Sister Helen Prejean: The Face of Love
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sister Helen Prejean didn't know what she was getting into when she became pen pals with an inmate on death row, a story told in the film, Dead Man Wa...
Nora McInerny: It's Okay to Laugh
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nora McInerny had a miscarriage, lost her father, and lost her husband all within a few weeks. Much to her surprise, she kept living. But she didn’t...
Sesame Street: How do we talk to kids about hard things?
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do we prepare our kids for a world we can't always protect them from? Sesame Street creates educational programs to make the most vulnerable among...
Andrew Solomon: The Stories of Who We Are
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Writer Andrew Solomon never felt like he fit in. But studying other communities that celebrate differences transformed his sense of belonging and his ...
Jerome Adams: We Belong to Each Other
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams is committed to combatting the rising fatalities from opioids because he knows the struggle too well. His brother ...
John Swinton: The Speed of Love
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The quality of time depends on our abilities and disabilities, possibilities and limitations. In a world of speed and productivity, Kate speaks with d...
BJ Miller: Loving What Is
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After an accident left BJ Miller with a serious physical disability, he had to learn how to be patient with his limitations. Now, he’s a palliative ...
John Green: Chronic Not Curable
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Society likes to tell the narrative of sick to healthy. But what if there are things we can’t just get over? In his novel, Turtles All The Way Down,...
Kelly Corrigan: Tell Me More
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When bestselling author Kelly Corrigan experienced the death of her dad and dear friend back-to-back, she couldn’t shake the feeling that she wasn’...
How to Grieve Well (Special Conversation)
12 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What can we expect in the first moments of loss? How is it possible to grieve someone we may have never met? How can we best support people who are in...
Jayson Greene: The Language of Grief
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Jayson Greene’s two-year-old daughter died in a random tragedy, he was forced to find a way forward. What does it look like to hope again after...
Mark Lukach: True Believers
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Lukach felt like he was hit with a tsunami when his beautiful marriage was upended by mental illness. With one diagnosis, he lost his wife and ga...
Barbara Brown Taylor: Life after Dark
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Author and Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor is no stranger to darkness. After experiencing devastating loss, Barbara explores our culture’s pur...
Emily McDowell: There's No Good Card for That
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it so hard to say the right thing to those going through difficult circumstances? Artist Emily McDowell was on the receiving end of some terrib...
Alan Alda: Can You Hear Me Now?
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Alda is best known for his prolific acting career. But he has also spent years learning about, and teaching, communication. The Emmy-winning acto...
Wes Moore: Fork in the Road
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Moore had a rough childhood growing up in Baltimore. His father died when he was a child, he struggled in school and was arrested for vandalism be...
Margaret Feinberg: Learning to Be Happy Again
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bestselling author and speaker Margaret Feinberg was writing a book about joy when her world fell apart. Suddenly she was fighting for her life and re...
Alexandra Petri: Awkward
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri is the queen of awkwardness. She didn't audition for "America's Next Top Model" and become a yodeling champi...
Lucy Kalanithi: Costly Love
14 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Lucy Kalanithi fell for another doctor, she couldn't know how much love would teach her about suffering. Lucy Kalanithi is the widow of Dr. Paul...
Nadia Bolz-Weber: The Insight of Outsiders
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before Nadia Bolz-Weber became famous as a foul-mouthed pastor and bestselling author, she was an alcoholic and stand-up comedian. This episode is dev...
Preview: Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Life isn't always bright and shiny, as Kate Bowler knows. Kate is a young mother, writer and professor who, age 35, Kate, was suddenly diagnosed with ...