{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Trinity Forum Conversations","title":"Blessings for Imperfect Days with Kate Bowler","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2914,"description":"The Blessing of Imperfect Days with Kate Bowler\nIt’s easy to be caught in the trap of perfectionism, especially when those around us seem to have it all together. But we can find ourselves alone and discouraged when things don’t go as we’ve planned, and the lives we actually have fail to resemble those we’d hoped to lead.\n\nIn her recently released book The Lives We Actually Lead, New York Times best-selling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler (along with co-author Jessica Richie) offer a collection of blessings that center gratitude and hope while acknowledging the reality of our often messy and frantic everyday lives. They show how embracing our limitations and vulnerabilities, as well as those of others, can open new possibilities for healing, hope, and community.\nFinitude, Gratitude, and Being of Help\nIn this conversation, Kate shares about her work detailing the Prosperity Gospel movement from an academic standpoint, and how her own setbacks and health catastrophe in a cancer diagnosis both deepened her sense of being loved by God and softened her toward those desperate for a miracle.\nKate and Cherie's conversation goes through deep waters, but does so with much humor and heart. We hope you'll listen and share it with your friends and loved ones.\nThis podcast is an edited version of an Evening Conversation with Kate recorded in February of 2023. You can access the full conversation with transcript here. Learn more about Kate Bowler.\n\nAuthors and books mentioned in the conversation:\nBlessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, by Kate Bowler\nThe Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities, by Kate Bowler\nEverything Happens For a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, by Kate Bowler\nNo Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear), by Kate Bowler\nThe Lives We Actually Have: A Hundred Blessings for Imperfect Days, by Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie\nSeneca\nJoel Osteen\nOprah\nJoanna Gaines\nRev. Dr. Stephen B....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LC6b2lFM_r_3xEJCzvD8r7UblHhgtgss5nBJ4X1mqD4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3OTk3LzE2MTM1/MzUwNjEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}