Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, continues to help us prepare for Lent.  This week she chats with Kelli Joyce about the impact gratitude has on Lent personally and liturgically.

Follow United Thank Offering on Facebook & Instagram.

Follow Erin Jean Warde on Instagram & BlueSky.

Bio: The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville.

The Rev. Kelli Joyce is a priest of the Diocese of Arizona, currently living and ministering in the Diocese of Tennessee. A Baptist and North Carolinian by birth, Kelli studied Political Science and National Security at UNC-Chapel Hill before discerning that God was calling her to ordained ministry and to the Episcopal Church. She received her MDiv from Yale Divinity School and a Master of Arts in Christian Theology from Durham University in the United Kingdom, where her research focused on kenotic Christology and the lived experiences of stone butch lesbians. She is a doctoral candidate in Theological Studies at Vanderbilt University, where her research focuses on the theology and practice of Christian Initiation in the Episcopal Church. Her wife, Bailey, is a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), and in their spare time they enjoy cooking, watching Japanese TV shows, playing with their dog, Amos, and debating Sacramental Theology. You can find Kelli on BlueSky @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social.

Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, continues to help us prepare for Lent.  This week she shares ideas for Lenten practices that are also gratitude practices.

Follow United Thank Offering on Facebook & Instagram.

Follow Erin Jean Warde on Instagram & BlueSky.

Bio: The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville.

Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, continues to help us prepare for Lent.  This week she explores how Lent and gratitude are connected.

Follow United Thank Offering on Facebook & Instagram.

Follow Erin Jean Warde on Instagram & BlueSky.

Bio: The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville.

Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, begins a month-long focus on preparing for the season of Lent with a scripture reflection on Matthew 6:1-6,16-21.

Follow United Thank Offering on Facebook & Instagram.

Follow Erin Jean Warde on Instagram & BlueSky.

Bio: The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville.

Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, welcomes Laura Jackson as her guest. Enjoy their conversation about new year's resolutions, cultivating curiosity, and more.

Follow United Thank Offering on Facebook & Instagram.

Follow Erin Jean Warde on Instagram & BlueSky.

Bio: The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville.

Laura Jackson is the Executive Director of The Partner's Path (ThePartnersPath.org), a Leadership Coach, and a Doctor of Ministry candidate in Spirituality. She specializes in studying and writing about the spiritual lives of clergy spouses. Laura is also the founder of Holy Ground Coaching and a coach at Province V's Leadership Coaching Project. With a diverse background that includes being a chaplain, crisis counselor, trauma therapist, and spiritual director, Laura brings a wealth of experience to her practice. She is passionate about human flourishing and dedicated to unlocking joy in individuals' lives through her work.

Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, continues the month’s discussion on renewal and positive coping by sharing one of her favorite holistic tools: HALT (hungry, angry, lonely, tired).  You'll learn more about how to use this practice as a means of support for yourself in mind, body, and soul. 

Follow United Thank Offering on Facebook & Instagram. 

Follow Erin Jean Warde on Instagram & Twitter. 

The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time, you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville. 

Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, kicks off 2025 with a scripture reflection on John 11:1-44.  She encourages us to think about the new year as an invitation into renewal through resurrection. 

Follow United Thank Offering on Facebook & Instagram. 

Follow Erin Jean Warde on Instagram & Twitter. 

The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time, you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville. 

Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, offers an Advent guided meditation, as a gift to each of you for the holidays. You can use paper and pen to journal through the reflection, or you can just listen and respond in the spaces of time offered.   

The poem shared is "Advent Calendar" by Rowan Williams. 

Meditation Music by Dana Music from Pixabay 

Follow United Thank Offering on Facebook & Instagram. 

Follow Erin Jean Warde on Instagram & Twitter. 

The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time, you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville. 

Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. Enjoy a conversation between our host, Erin Jean, and special guest Micah Jackson. 

The Rev. Dr. Micah T.J. Jackson is the president of Bexley Seabury Seminary. Previously, Dr. Jackson served as the Bishop John Hines associate professor of preaching and director of comprehensive wellness at Seminary of the Southwest. His academic interests include the spiritual discipline of preaching, homiletic form, the postmodern construction of the relationship between preacher and congregation, liturgical leadership, and clergy formation and wellness. Dr. Jackson holds an MTS in Preaching from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, an MDiv from Meadville Lombard Theological School, and a PhD in Homiletics/Liturgy from Graduate Theological Union. He is the author of Preaching Face to Face: An Invitation to Conversational Preaching.

Follow United Thank Offering on Facebook & Instagram. 

Follow Erin Jean Warde on Instagram & Twitter. 

The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time, you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville. 

Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, reflects on the challenges of observing Advent, including perfectionism, as well as how to welcome the presence of God into our lives as they are right now. 

Follow United Thank Offering on Facebook & Instagram. 

Follow Erin Jean Warde on Instagram & Twitter. 

The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time, you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville.