Life is painful. Period. But are there some aspects of our faith or our posture toward the world that can change how we experience it? 

Father Richard Rohr is everyone’s favorite preacher of love. Love for each other. Love from God. 

In this conversation, Kate and Richard talk about:
How great love and great suffering can move us into a new stage of life 
The spirituality of subtraction
Making room for mystery of joy and suffering
His secret to staying present to God

Together, might we all learn when to hold on and when to let go.

Subscribe to Kate’s Substack for blessings, essays, and reflections that hold what’s hard and beautiful. Join us for Advent over there, too!

This episode originally aired November 2021.

Life is painful. Period. But are there some aspects of our faith or our posture toward the world that can change how we experience it?&nbsp;
Father Richard Rohr is everyone&rsquo;s favorite preacher of love. Love for each other. Love from God.&nbsp;
In this conversation, Kate and Richard talk about:
<ul>
<li>How great love and great suffering can move us into a new stage of life&nbsp;</li>
<li>The spirituality of subtraction</li>
<li>Making room for mystery of joy and suffering</li>
<li>His secret to staying present to God</li>
</ul>
Together, might we all learn when to hold on and when to let go.<a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices"></a>
<a href="https://katebowler.substack.com/" data-start="2069" data-end="2132">Subscribe to Kate&rsquo;s Substack</a> for blessings, essays, and reflections that hold what&rsquo;s hard and beautiful.&nbsp;Join us for <a href="https://katebowler.substack.com/s/advent">Advent</a> over there, too!
This episode originally aired November 2021.

Are you living your best life now? Not always? This is a podcast for you. Duke Professor Kate Bowler is an expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, everything happens.  Find her online at @katecbowler.

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Are you living your best life now? Not always? This is a podcast for you. Duke Professor Kate Bowler is an expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, everything happens.  Find her online at @katecbowler.
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Honest conversation about life's less-shiny moments.

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Life is painful. Period. But are there some aspects of our faith or our posture toward the world that can change how we experience it?   Father Richard Rohr is everyone’s favorite preacher of love. Love for each other. Love from God.   In this conversation, Kate and Richard talk about:  How great love and great suffering can move us into a new stage of life  The spirituality of subtraction Making room for mystery of joy and suffering His secret to staying present to God   Together, might we all learn when to hold on and when to let go.

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