Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved

London-born Kate Bowler, a thirty-five year-old professor at the school of divinity at Duke, hadfinally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart when she began to feel jabbing pains in herstomach. She lost thirty pounds, guzzled antacid, and visited doctors for three months beforeshe was finally diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer.As Kate navigates the aftermath of her diagnosis, she pulls the reader into her life and herhistory - affectionately filled with a colourful retinue of friends, mega-church preachers,parents, and doctors - and shares her irreverent, laser-sharp reflections on faith, friendship,love, and death. She wonders why suffering makes her feel like a loser and explores the burdenof positivity. Trying to relish the time she still has with her son and husband, she realizes shemust cure her habit of 'skipping to the end' and planning the next move. An historian of theAmerican Prosperity Gospel (the creed of the megachurches that promises believers a cure fortragedy, if they just want it badly enough) Kate finds that she craves these same 'outrageouscertainties'. Why is it so hard to surrender when she knows there are no spiritual guarantees?In Everything Happens for Reason we encounter one of the talented, courageous few who - likePaul Kalanithi - can articulate the grief we feel as we contemplate our own mortality.

ISBN:	9780281079285
Publisher:	SPCK
Imprint:	Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Published date:	06 Feb 2018
DEWEY:	277.3083092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	208
Weight:	330g
Height:	202mm
Width:	145mm
Spine width:	21mm

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