Today, we have a little bonus episode to kick off your weekend. Vivek Murthy, the current U.S. Surgeon General, had so much wisdom to offer us in this week's conversation on combatting loneliness and building better relationships. In this bonus clip, he offers us a little pep talk for connection. It may be just what you need to hear.

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Today, we have a little bonus episode to kick off your weekend. Vivek Murthy, the current U.S. Surgeon General, had so much wisdom to offer us in this week's conversation on combatting loneliness and building better relationships. In this bonus clip, he offers us a little pep talk for connection. It may be just what you need to hear.
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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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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.

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Made for Connection: A Bonus Heart-to-Heart with Dr. Vivek Murthy

What if Lent isn’t about giving something up, but about learning how to sit with what’s already gone? In this episode, Kate talks with poet, priest, and theologian Malcolm Guite about the kind of faith that can hold contradiction—the yes and the no, belief and doubt, beauty and sorrow. Malcolm, a Life Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and author of Sounding the Seasons and Lifting the Veil, reflects on prayer as attention, poetry as a language spacious enough for ambivalence, and why faith might need less forced resolution and more honesty.

SHOW NOTES


Sounding the Seasons by Malcolm Guite


Lifting the Veil by Malcolm Guite


Seamus Heaney, Station Island


George Herbert, “Prayer”


Gerard Manley Hopkins, the “terrible sonnets” (including “No worst, there is none”) and The Wreck of the Deutschland


T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets


C.S. Lewis, “Blue Spells and Flowered Spheres”


Tour dates & tickets: katebowler.com/joyfulanyway


Watch the live conversation on YouTube


Join Kate Bowler on Substack for the season of Lent: katebowler.substack.com

What if Lent isn&rsquo;t about giving something up, but about learning how to sit with what&rsquo;s already gone? In this episode, Kate talks with poet, priest, and theologian Malcolm Guite about the kind of faith that can hold contradiction&mdash;the yes and the no, belief and doubt, beauty and sorrow. Malcolm, a Life Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and author of Sounding the Seasons and Lifting the Veil, reflects on prayer as attention, poetry as a language spacious enough for ambivalence, and why faith might need less forced resolution and more honesty.
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Sounding the Seasons by Malcolm Guite
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Lifting the Veil by Malcolm Guite
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Seamus Heaney, Station Island
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George Herbert, &ldquo;Prayer&rdquo;
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, the &ldquo;terrible sonnets&rdquo; (including &ldquo;No worst, there is none&rdquo;) and The Wreck of the Deutschland
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T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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C.S. Lewis, &ldquo;Blue Spells and Flowered Spheres&rdquo;
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Tour dates &amp; tickets:<a href="https://katebowler.com/books/joyfulanyway/">&nbsp;katebowler.com/joyfulanyway</a>
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Watch the live conversation on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@katecbowler">YouTube</a>
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Join Kate Bowler on Substack for the season of Lent:&nbsp;<a href="https://katebowler.substack.com/">katebowler.substack.com</a>
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What If Prayer Isn’t What You Think It Is? with Malcolm Guite

We live in a world that wants life to be fair. Work hard, make good choices, believe the right things—and things should turn out okay. But what happens when they don’t? In this live conversation, Kate talks with sociologist Mark Rank, author of The Random Factor, about the role of chance in our lives. From the lottery of birth to the timing of a missed phone call, Mark’s research shows how much of what we call success—or failure—comes down to forces we never chose.

SHOW NOTES:


Mark Rank,The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us


Mark Rank – Washington University in St. Louis


Christian Tomasetti et al., research on random mutations and cancer risk (Johns Hopkins)


Every Cure (founded by David Fajgenbaum)


Tour dates & tickets: katebowler.com/joyfulanyway


Watch the live conversation on YouTube


Join Kate Bowler on Substack for the season of Lent: katebowler.substack.com

We live in a world that wants life to be fair. Work hard, make good choices, believe the right things&mdash;and things should turn out okay. But what happens when they don&rsquo;t? In this live conversation, Kate talks with sociologist Mark Rank, author of The Random Factor, about the role of chance in our lives. From the lottery of birth to the timing of a missed phone call, Mark&rsquo;s research shows how much of what we call success&mdash;or failure&mdash;comes down to forces we never chose.
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SHOW NOTES:
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Mark Rank,<a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-random-factor/hardcover"> The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us</a>
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<a href="https://brownschool.washu.edu/faculty-and-research/mark-rank/">Mark Rank &ndash; Washington University in St. Louis</a>
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Christian Tomasetti et al., <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/bad_luck_of_random_mutations_plays_predominant_role_in_cancer_study_shows">research on random mutations and cancer risk</a> (Johns Hopkins)
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<a href="https://everycure.org/">Every Cure</a> (founded by David Fajgenbaum)
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Tour dates &amp; tickets:<a href="https://katebowler.com/books/joyfulanyway/">&nbsp;katebowler.com/joyfulanyway</a>
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Watch the live conversation on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@katecbowler">YouTube</a>
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Join Kate Bowler on Substack for the season of Lent:&nbsp;<a href="https://katebowler.substack.com/">katebowler.substack.com</a>
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The Randomness of Everything with Mark Rank

Kate Bowler invites two of her sharpest friends—Ross Douthat and Molly Worthen—to help her make sense of the current American religious landscape: why the long “decline” story may be shifting, why religious curiosity is popping up in unexpected places, and why the loudest forms of Christianity often feel more online, more political, and more embarrassing. Together they sort through what people mean by “Christian nationalism,” how much of it is symbolism versus policy, what weak institutions and internet incentives are doing to faith, and what still gives them hope for the church.

SHOW NOTES
Ross Douthat

Bad Religion
Believe
The Deep Places
Molly Worthen

Apostles of Reason
Spellbound


Pre-order Joyful Anyway by Kate Bowler


Tour dates & tickets: katebowler.com/joyfulanyway


Watch the live conversation on YouTube


Join Kate Bowler on Substack for the season of Lent: katebowler.substack.com

Kate Bowler invites two of her sharpest friends&mdash;Ross Douthat and Molly Worthen&mdash;to help her make sense of the current American religious landscape: why the long &ldquo;decline&rdquo; story may be shifting, why religious curiosity is popping up in unexpected places, and why the loudest forms of Christianity often feel more online, more political, and more embarrassing. Together they sort through what people mean by &ldquo;Christian nationalism,&rdquo; how much of it is symbolism versus policy, what weak institutions and internet incentives are doing to faith, and what still gives them hope for the church.
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SHOW NOTES
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<li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/bad-religion-how-we-became-a-nation-of-heretics-ross-douthat/3a983aa6cd8812a8?ean=9781439178331&amp;next=t">Bad Religion</a></li>
<li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/believe-why-everyone-should-be-religious-ross-douthat/8251dbe4f8b763a7?ean=9780310367581&amp;next=t">Believe</a></li>
<li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-deep-places-a-memoir-of-illness-and-discovery-ross-douthat/a07c0e44937042fc?ean=9780593237366&amp;next=t">The Deep Places</a></li>
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<li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/apostles-of-reason-the-crisis-of-authority-in-american-evangelicalism-assistant-professor-of-history-molly-worthen/3be26eb8fa5bb6a2?ean=9780199896462&amp;next=t">Apostles of Reason</a></li>
<li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/spellbound-how-charisma-shaped-american-history-from-the-puritans-to-donald-trump-molly-worthen/6a6d5fab5cfeaec4?ean=9780593729007&amp;next=t">Spellbound</a></li>
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<a href="https://katebowler.com/books/joyfulanyway/">Pre-order&nbsp;Joyful Anyway&nbsp;by Kate Bowler</a>
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Tour dates &amp; tickets:<a href="https://katebowler.com/books/joyfulanyway/">&nbsp;katebowler.com/joyfulanyway</a>
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Watch the live conversation on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@katecbowler">YouTube</a>
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Join Kate Bowler on Substack for the season of Lent: <a href="https://katebowler.substack.com/">katebowler.substack.com</a>
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Made for Connection: A Bonus Heart-to-Heart with Dr. Vivek Murthy

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