Everything Happens For A Reason And Other Lies I’ve Loved

Kate Bowler

Book

Connection With

God

Sooner or later we all have seasons of pain-filled darkness. In these seasons, it can be hard to avoid the echoes of a popular American/Canadian pseudo-gospel that says you can control your life and are a failure if you don’t. Historian and former cancer patient Kate Bowler’s funny, irreverent and highly personal book squarely challenges this belief. I (James) believe we all need this book because it offers a discovery of beauty in ordinary life on the other side of the large and small disappointments we (and those close to us) experience in some way all of the time.

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