Everything Happens with Kate Bowler Advent: Love Comes Down
Dec 22, 2025
This discussion dives into the contrast between commercial and genuine love during the holiday season. It highlights the humble arrival of love through a vulnerable Nativity scene—a baby, a scared mother, and an uncertain father. Kate reflects on how this slow, human love transforms the world, sitting with the outcasts and offering comfort even in death. Listeners are encouraged to notice small acts of love around them, like thoughtful texts and neighborly gestures, as reminders of God's close presence.
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Contrasting Commercial Love With Advent
- December's commercialized love is loud, shiny, and transactional instead of vulnerable.
- Kate Bowler contrasts that with Advent's subtle, vulnerable form of love that refuses spectacle.
Love Comes As Vulnerability
- God’s arrival in Advent is quiet, vulnerable, and ordinary rather than grand or efficient.
- That small, human love—swaddled in rags—turns out to be the force that remakes the world.
Small Love That Grows Into Compassion
- The kind of love that begins small grows to accompany suffering and promise hope.
- This love sits with outcasts, weeps at gravesides, and vows nothing, not even death, separates us from God.