A Blessing For Your Best Life Now My world is spinning on the axis of a single thought: I should be living my best life now. Lord, other people are living their effortless, joyful, perfect lives. Why aren’t I? When I scroll social media, I see grinning faces teaching me,

We are kicking off Season 12 of the Everything Happens Podcast (!!) with my friend, Bob Crawford, someone who knows too well how terrible and beautiful life can be. Listen to EVERYTHING HAPPENS wherever you get your podcasts: wavve.link/EverythingHapp…

A Blessing For Not Your Best Self (From Have A Beautiful, Terrible Day!) God, I can’t tell which person I will be today: kind and loving, turn-the-other-cheek and I’ll-be-right-here, soft but strong. I will keep no record of wrongs. I might be someone else entirely: brittle

New Episode Out Now! A basketball coach, a doctor, and a history professor walk into a bar….This might be the start of a great joke OR the start of an episode of Everything Happens. This conversation was a special one. My friends U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and Duke

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW I talked with the wonder and the marvelous queen of tragicomedy @wittelstephanie. And isn’t tragicomedy all of life? The absurdity. The horror. The laughter that somehow cuts through the most difficult of moments. Stephanie has so much to teach us about how

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!! Academy Award-winning director @realSarahPolley (she/her) describes what it was like to not be believed. And how, as adults, we can all better protect those around us and look back on our younger selves with compassion. Listen now: katebowler.com/podcasts/run-t…

A blessing for if you've had a painful childhood Blessed are you who come with your sorrow, allowing your pain to convey all its truth. Here is where grief is understood at its core, where the dark shadow of betrayal is seen from the inside. Here, my dear, is where the work

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! How do you have a faith that can hold all of reality—the beautiful, the terrible, and everything in-between? The TODAY Show’s Savannah Guthrie thinks carefully about this question, especially given that her job is reporting the news every morning. Listen

A Blessing for Honest Faith God, I am disappointed and embarrassed at what people get up to in the name of religion. My heart is thirsty for a faith I can trust. And I mean that. I don’t trust the cultural scripts that turn religion into any game where somebody wins and

A Blessing for When You Don’t Feel Fulfilled Anymore God, I will wake up today and move, numbly, into each new hour. I will fill my lungs with the air of an undone, unfinished, never-before-seen day, entirely certain of how I will feel when it ends: tired. bored. unchanged.

We don’t usually have repeat guests on this podcast… except I’m making an exception for the wonderful and wise Alan Alda. Alan Alda, of course, is an award-winning actor, writer, director, and podcast host of Clear and Vivid. You probably know and love him as Hawkeye on

These are uncertain times for so many of us. But, according to writer Maggie Jackson (Maggie Jackson), perhaps there is deep wisdom to be uncovered—surprising gifts of curiosity, creative thinking, open-mindedness, and ways forward through the (often) unpredictabilities of

For living without control God, I come to you as I am. It is all I have, really. And the next one I’m conscious of will be the same. I can feel the way I move, moment to moment, without the comfort of “solutions.” It seems wild to me now how I imagined any once-and-for-all cure

The first time I was on GMA I got my heel stuck in the chair. The second time I stood up suddenly because Snooki came in and I got overwhelmed. But the third time? WELL WELL WELL. Wait until the end to see the absurdly cute thing they did. @ABCGMA3 made me SO VERY HAPPY. And

A Blessing for Palm Sunday Jesus, from that mountain high among the olive trees, it would have been an easy walk down to the city, to Jerusalem, which lay below. So why choose to make your way on a donkey, on an everyday beast of burden, your feet almost dragging on the

When your favourite person writes an about-to-be-favourite book....

Thinking about plausible horror movie titles. Please someone make: "The Extroverted Massage Therapist"

I will never be mad about a conversation with Rainn Wilson.

Dr. Ken Jeong bringing a lot of medical support and Duke pride to the FINAL FOUR. 💙😈