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Three years ago, Kate Bowler was handed the diagnosis that changed everything: stage 4 colon cancer. With a grim prognosis, she immediately started treatment and simultaneously wrote the memoir “Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved,” which went on to become a New York Times bestseller.

She still has cancer. But she’s still here, to the surprise of even herself. Now she lives from cancer scan to cancer scan, a living reminder that mortality stalks us all. She recently

 wrote about that juxtaposition in The Washington Post

On Wednesday, host Kerri Miller spoke with Kate about chronic cancer and the beautiful precarity of life. It’s the latest conversation in our 

 series,. You can also find another discussion between Kerri and Kate 

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The next installment in our Women of Faith series: Kate Bowler lives with cancer. “Do you ever feel like a survivor?” she writes. “Or are you just an ongoing problem that makes for awkward small talk at parties?”

The next installment in our Women of Faith series: Kate Bowler lives with cancer. "Do you ever feel like a survivor?" she writes. "Or are you just an ongoing problem that makes for awkward small talk at parties?"

Women of Faith: Kate Bowler on living with chronic cancer in a fix-it-quick culture

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