Kate Bowler's reflections on life and death may be more profound because she knows everything there is to know about the prosperity gospel, or maybe she wrote such a powerful book about the prosperity gospel because she has a depth of insight, because she has a heart for what it is to be human.
In the immediate aftermath of Warren’s piece, it appeared that Christian women were falling into two camps—rather than Jen vs. Angelina, we had Jen vs. Tish. But instead of taking sides, it might be more useful for us to realize that we are all, like them, products of historical and cultural forces that define our experiences and constrain our choices in ways we often fail to realize.
Her religious dialect, one shaped by the progressive Christianity of the 1960s, is not easily translated into the language of the Religious Right, the dominant language of faith and politics in America today.