{"podcast":{"title":"Everything Happens with Kate Bowler","slug":"everything-happens-with-kate-bowler-63034","podcast_index_feed_id":63034,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LEME6986128900","website_url":"https://katebowler.com/everything-happens/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/86892c10-3a95-11f1-a1df-8f192f09955d/image/802bcb8ed143b135fd443e9494c50795.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Kate Bowler","episode_count":290,"summary":"Are you living your best life now? Not always? This is a podcast for you. Duke Professor Kate Bowler is an expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, everything happens. Find her online at @katecbowler. Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media https://lemonadamedia.com/","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T16:18:30.938074+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-happens-with-kate-bowler-63034"},"episode":{"title":"The New Shape of American Religion with Ross Douthat and Molly Worthen","slug":"the-new-shape-of-american-religion-with-ross-douthat-and-molly-worthen","published_at":"2026-03-03T08:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-happens-with-kate-bowler-63034/the-new-shape-of-american-religion-with-ross-douthat-and-molly-worthen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-happens-with-kate-bowler-63034","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/everything-happens-with-kate-bowler/the-new-shape-of-american-religion-with-ross-douthat-and-molly-worthen","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/claritaspod.com/measure/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/491/traffic.megaphone.fm/LEME2505317153.mp3?updated=1778273571","summary":"Kate Bowler invites two of her sharpest friends—Ross Douthat and Molly Worthen—to help her make sense of the current American religious landscape: why the long “decline” story may be shifting, why religious curiosity is popping up in unexpected places, and why the loudest forms of Christianity often feel more online, more political, and more embarrassing. Together they sort through what people mean by “Christian nationalism,” how much of it is symbolism versus policy, what weak institutions and internet incentives are doing to faith, and what still gives them hope for the church. SHOW NOTES Ross Douthat Bad Religion Believe The Deep Places Molly Worthen Apostles of Reason Spellbound Pre-order Joyful Anyway by Kate Bowler Tour dates & tickets: katebowler.com/joyfulanyway Watch the live conversation on YouTube Join Kate Bowler on Substack for the season of Lent: katebowler.substack.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.","meta_description":"Kate Bowler invites two of her sharpest friends—Ross Douthat and Molly Worthen—to help her make sense of the current American religious landscape: why the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3025,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/everything-happens-with-kate-bowler-63034/episodes/the-new-shape-of-american-religion-with-ross-douthat-and-molly-worthen/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/everything-happens-with-kate-bowler-63034/the-new-shape-of-american-religion-with-ross-douthat-and-molly-worthen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}