Show Notes
If only we could, as Marcus Aurelius said, let everything we do and say be that of a dying person, then we would get so much more right.
Kate Bowler is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and professor of religious history at Duke University. She is the host of the podcast Everything Happens, where she has honest conversations about grief, joy, faith, love, and the realities of being human.
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