Kate Bowler
Mormonism and the soft prosperity gospel
By Jana Riess — November 17, 2023
(RNS) — The LDS Church doesn't teach that God wants you to be rich. But it does promote a 'Plan of Happiness' that emphasizes your very own personal flourishing.
Mormons are insulated from some dangers of celebrity culture — but not all
By Jana Riess — October 27, 2022
(RNS) — It helps that some of our leaders are over the age of 90.
10 up-and-coming faith influencers we wrote about (or published) in 2021
By Paul O'Donnell — December 30, 2021
(RNS) — 2021’s rising stars in religion were those speaking as much to social concerns as spiritual ones.
Kate Bowler wants to take down the self-help enterprise
By Yonat Shimron — November 4, 2021
(RNS) — Her new book, ‘No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear),’ is a broadside against a culture obsessed with the power of positive thinking.
Why Trump, the prosperity gospel president, can’t be honest about COVID-19
By Bob Smietana — October 5, 2020
(RNS) — Trump thinks repeating positive thoughts about his health, wealth or political situation will cause everything to turn out for the best.
Kate Bowler on how evangelical women carved a niche in celebrity culture
By Yonat Shimron — October 11, 2019
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Without any kind of theological credentials and while toeing the line of the subservient wife, many preachers' wives were as successful as their husbands in the capitalist marketplace, Kate Bowler's new book argues.
Pancakes, Fat Tuesday and cheering for the losing team
By Kate Bowler — March 5, 2019
(RNS) — In a world that prizes self-affirmation, confidence and pride, Ash Wednesday comes as a slap in the face, a bracing cold shower of reality. Inescapably, we are told of our lingering weaknesses, faults and helplessness.
What living with a death sentence can teach all of us about life
By Jonathan Merritt — February 6, 2018
(RNS) — 'If someone found cancer to be a gift, wonderful. But there is a certain cruelty to asking suffering people to bear the weight of other people’s theological conundrums,' Christian historian Kate Bowler tells RNS' Jonathan Merritt. (Commentary)
God (still) wants you to be rich: Duke scholar Kate Bowler explores the “prosperity gospel” from Jim and Tammy Faye to Joel Osteen
By Jana Riess — March 19, 2014
Duke historian Kate Bowler says we’ve transitioned from the “hard prosperity gospel” of the 1980s to the therapeutic soft sell of Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen, and others.
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