Kate Bowler

The Best of Biblical Studies, Academic Theology, Pastoral Theology, and Everything In-Between.

Surveillance Elves, Human Weakness, Spotify Righteousness, Grace for Billie Eilish, and a Love Stronger Than Death

This joy that we sing of is less about how we feel and more about what God has done.

Am I supposed to be “growing into this,” rather than yearning for anything but?

Evil Everywhere, Franzen’s Crossroads, Self-Objectification, Cleansing a Bookstore, and Rick Steves Goes to Westeros.

Alleluia! Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has […]

“What If Our Worst Feelings Are Just Vestigial Garbage?”

This is one for the ages, from the author of Everything Happens for a Reason: […]

Time for our annual round up of favorites, which now includes TV too. As always, […]

My mom has a very useful phrase that, because she’s our mom, my siblings and […]

1. Kate Bowler’s new op-ed in the New York Times this week is one for […]

In church yesterday, we read the “Temptation in the Wilderness,” the passage where Jesus is tempted […]