Scholars@Duke
Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Associate Professor of American Religious History
Divinity School
Duke Box 90967, Durham, NC 27708
209 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Academic Honors

Lily Theological Research Grant

National Association of Theological Schools · 2012

News Items

Published November 17, 2025
Kate Bowler Is Made for Hope
Published April 2, 2025
Full Frame Opens Thursday; Here's Kate Bowler’s Picks of Movies to See
Published April 11, 2024
Spring Books by Duke Authors: Meditations, Baseball, Rebels and Stomach Pains
Published March 25, 2024
Duke 100 Trailblazer: Kate Bowler
Published October 27, 2023
No Stranger to Loneliness: The Surgeon General Addresses a Community Health Crisis
Published October 19, 2023
U.S. Surgeon General To Speak at Duke on Building Personal Connections
Published October 12, 2023
A Conversation About Society’s Epidemic of Loneliness
Published September 27, 2023
A Role for Theology in the Cancer Patient Experience
Published June 27, 2023
Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen Ideas Festival 2023 Closing Session
Published June 22, 2023
Hot Off the Press: Summer Reading From Duke Authors
Published February 17, 2023
Good Morning America
Faith Friday: Author Kate Bowler speaks on living with more gratitude
Published February 14, 2023
Spring Books from Duke Authors from Wittgenstein to Capoeira
Published October 14, 2022
A Durham Mural Becomes a Destination for the Heart-Sore
Published May 31, 2022
PBS
Kate Bowler on Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan
Published February 23, 2022
Duke Chapel
Duke Chapel Art Exhibit Inspired by Bowler's Book on Complicated Truths
Published February 11, 2022
Good Morning America
Living Through LIfe's Challenges and Adversities
Published December 10, 2021
Kate Bowler with Stanley Tucci: Simple Pleasures, Small Joys
Published November 24, 2021
Kate Bowler: Honest Language for Life's Hardest Moments
Published November 8, 2021
10 Duke-Authored Memoirs Have Stories to Tell
Published November 5, 2021
The Washington Post
Kate Bowler takes on the self-help industrial complex
Published September 24, 2021
The Washington Post
We can't upgrade our lives. We can only live them.
Published September 22, 2021
Sojourner
Maybe There's No Moral to the Story
Published August 20, 2021
Malcolm Gladwell and Kate Bowler: Can People Change?
Published March 12, 2021
Kate Bowler Everything Happens
Kate Bowler, Matthew McConaughey: Stories We Tell Ourselves
Published April 7, 2020
New York Times
Kate Bowler on Living Life in a Time of Fear
Published December 1, 2019
WUNC.org
Kate Bowler: Powerful Evangelical Women's Delicate Dance With Submission
Published June 4, 2019
In TEDMED Talk, Kate Bowler Talks About Life Following Her Diagnosis With Stage 4 Cancer
Published January 22, 2019
Faith & Leadership
Kate Bowler on the presence of God in the face of death
Published December 7, 2018
Everything Happens for a Reason
Barbara Brown Taylor Talks with Kate Bowler on Things We Learn in the Dark
Published December 7, 2018
Everything Happens for a Reason
Barbara Brown Taylor Talks with Kate Bowler on Everything Happens
Published November 30, 2018
Everything Happens Podcast
Emily McDowell and Kate Bowler on What to Say When Life is Unfair
Published November 30, 2018
Everything Happens Podcast
Kate Bowler with Emily McDowell on What to Say When Life is Unfair
Published July 2, 2018
Two Duke Faculty Take the Stage at the Aspen Ideas Festival
Published March 27, 2018
The Today Show
Kate Bowler’s story of coping with cancer and how it changed her faith
Published March 21, 2018
'Everything Happens' Ends First Season Among Top Public Radio Podcasts
Published March 20, 2018
Everything Happens Podcast
Kate Bowler With Alan Alda on Acting, Empathy and Communicating with Doctors
Published March 14, 2018
Everything Happens podcast
Kate Bowler with Wes Moore on When Life Goes Off the Rails
Published March 7, 2018
Everything Happens podcast
Kate Bowler With Margaret Feinberg on Finding Joy After Cancer
Published February 26, 2018
Everything Happens Podcast
Kate Bowler Talks with Alexandra Petri About Those Awkward Moments
Published February 7, 2018
Duke Stories
Kate Bowler: Things We Learn in the Dark
Published January 28, 2018
NY Times
Kate Bowler: What To Do When You Meet the Angel of Death at a Party
Published June 20, 2017
Faith & Leadership
Kate Bowler on Why Are There So Few Mainline Church Celebrity Ministers?
Published April 15, 2016
TIME
Kate Bowler discusses Donald Trump’s prosperity preachers
Published March 15, 2016
WUNC
Life, death and faith collide: Prosperity gospel scholar Kate Bowler faces stage 4 cancer
Published February 15, 2016
Kate Bowler: Death, the Prosperity Gospel and Me
Published February 15, 2016
New York Times
Kate Bowler: Death, the prosperity gospel and me
Published April 20, 2015
The New York Times
Kate Bowler comments: More married couples, same-sex and straight, are sharing the job of pastor
Published December 11, 2014
Christian Century
Kate Bowler: Advent in post-Ferguson America
Published October 13, 2014
CNN
Kate Bowler comments: Americans want more religion in politics, study finds
Published December 13, 2013
Christian Century
Kate Bowler: The American megachurch and the Christmas prosperity gospel
Published December 4, 2013
News Tip: Christianity Expert Available to Comment on New Rick Warren Book
Published November 6, 2013
The Weekly Standard
Book Review: Heavenly rewards