[1] Bowler works at Duke Divinity School as an associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America.

She completed her PhD at Duke University which focuses on the history of prosperity gospel in the United States.

[6] Bowler's first book entitled Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel was published in 2013.

[15] Her third book, The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities (Princeton Press), was published in 2019.

[22] In 2015, she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer,[22] which was the basis of her memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I've Loved).