Taylor Harris: Peace for Our Anxious Selves
Everyone loves to get VERY BOSSY when it comes to our fears. “Don’t worry, be happy!” Just be brave! But maybe ‘being brave’ doesn’t mean ignoring our fears but living alongside them. After all, we li...
8 Mars 202238min
Liz Tichenor: Being Church on Our Worst Days
Author and priest Liz Tichenor lost her mom and her baby in the same year. Brand new to leading a church and reeling from the grief, the pain was enough to break her. But it didn’t—because other peopl...
1 Mars 202240min
Kate Baer: Tolerating Imperfection
Poet Kate Baer found herself inundated with the demands of motherhood and little time to write. Nothing was easy and then, at a breaking point, it felt impossible. If she wanted a creative life, she w...
22 Feb 202231min
Giving Up on Perfect
I do not imagine that I will settle centuries of debate about just how good we are, except that I believe that it is somewhere between two poles: everything and nothing. Perfection is impossible, but ...
15 Feb 202216min
Rick Mercer: Proud of Absolutely Everybody
Rick Mercer didn’t exactly know he was allowed to be proud. As a teenager, he was barely making it through high school and traveling the island province of Newfoundland, Canada, as the sidekick to a k...
8 Feb 202242min
Katie Couric: The Courage to Try (and Wisdom to Know When to Let Go)
Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author. Her hustle and ambition not only served her career aspirations, but when faced with the unthinkable, she poured those same qualities...
1 Feb 202243min
Introducing Season 8 of EVERYTHING HAPPENS
My name is Kate Bowler, and I'm a professor at Duke, a writer of some books that have joyfully sarcastic titles, wife, and mom of a boy that is mostly made up of giant flashlight eyeballs and the kind...
1 Feb 20221min
David Brooks & Kate Bowler: Never, Ever Enough
How do we reach for wisdom instead of self-help solutions? Much to their embarrassment, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Kate Bowler often find their books in the “Self-Help section.” David s...
30 Nov 202143min
