{"id":2173,"date":"2021-10-06T08:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T13:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2021-10-06T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T14:30:36","slug":"save-the-date-for-an-evening-with-kate-bowler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2021\/10\/06\/save-the-date-for-an-evening-with-kate-bowler\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Date for an evening with Kate Bowler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2176 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2021\/10\/Bowler_Promopic-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are excited to share that the ACU Library will host <\/span><b>\u201cIncurable Optimism: Friends of ACU Library Dinner with Kate Bowler\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the evening of March 3, 2022, at the Hunter Welcome Center on the campus of Abilene Christian University in Abilene, TX.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kate Bowler, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School. She completed her undergraduate degree at Macalester College, received a Masters of Religion from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. at Duke University. She is the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Oxford University Press, 2013), which received widespread media attention and academic praise as the first history of the movement based on divine promises of health, wealth, and happiness. She wrote the New York Times bestselling memoir, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I\u2019ve loved) <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Random House, 2018) after being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35\u2014a book Bill Gates lauds as \u201cbelonging on the shelf alongside other terrific books about mortality\u201d and includes on his must-read list. Dr. Bowler subsequently staged a national conversation around why it felt so difficult to speak frankly about suffering through her popular podcast, Everything Happens. Her book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Preacher\u2019s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (Princeton, 2019) follows the rise of celebrity Christian women in American evangelicalism. She has appeared on the TED stage, NPR, The TODAY Show, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and TIME Magazine. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband, Toban, and son, Zach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The funds raised through sponsorships and ticket sales will support the Friends of ACU Library Endowment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Please mark your calendar for March 3.\u00a0 Tickets will go on sale in January!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to share that the ACU Library will host \u201cIncurable Optimism: Friends of ACU Library Dinner with Kate Bowler\u201d on the evening of March 3, 2022, at the Hunter Welcome Center on the campus of Abilene Christian University in Abilene, TX.\u00a0\u00a0 Kate Bowler, Ph.D., is an associate professor of the history of Christianity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}