Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

by Kate Bowler

What would it mean for Christians to give up that little piece of the American Dream that says, “You are limitless”? Everything is not possible. The mighty Kingdom of God is not yet here. What if rich did not have to mean wealthy, and whole did not have to mean healed? What if being people of “the gospel” meant that we are simply people with good news? God is here. We are loved. It is enough.

IN THIS SEASON OF endless postponement, Chelsea and I were so happy for other people that we were exhausted.

a world of those who, like me, are stumbling in the debris of dreams they thought they were entitled to and plans they didn’t realize they had made.