No Cure for Being Human

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Life is a chronic condition. We all know, intellectually, that our time on earth is limited. But what would we change if we knew it viscerally?

Hailed by Glennon Doyle as ''the Christian Joan Didion'', Kate Bowler was thirty-five when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Before she got sick, she''d accepted the modern idea that life was an endless horizon of poss...