But cancer has also ushered in new ways of being alive. Even when I am this distant from Canadian family and friends, everything feels as if it is painted in bright colors. In my vulnerability, I am seeing my world without the Instagrammed filter of breezy certainties and perfectible moments. I can’t help noticing the brittleness of the walls that keep most people fed, sheltered and whole. I find myself returning to the same thoughts again and again: Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard.
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Kate Bowler
Historian of American Christianity; professor at Duke Divinity School
United States · b. 1980
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Canadian-American historian of the American prosperity gospel, diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer at thirty-five in 2015. She wrote about it for the New York Times and in Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved.
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