Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler is an associate professor of American religious history at Duke Divinity School. Her book, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (Oxford University Press 2013), received widespread media attention and academic praise as the first history of the movement based on divine promises of health, wealth, and happiness. She researched and traveled Canada and the United States interviewing megachurch leaders and everyday believers about how they make spiritual meaning of the good or bad in their lives. Her work on the prosperity gospel has been featured in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Guardian, TIME Magazine, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Washington Post, NPR, and the BBC. She has also authored Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I’ve loved) (Random House, 2018) and The Preacher’s Wife: Women and Power in American Megaministry (Princeton University Press, 2019), and she hosts a podcast titled Everything Happens.