Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, introduces us to the season of Advent, which will be our focus for the month, with a reflection on scripture. 

The scripture explored in today's episode is Luke 21:25-36. 

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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, closes our month with a reminder of spiritual practices offered throughout November, as well as insight into how we can build capacity in our lives to welcome the practices that can help us heal from burnout. 

The poem Erin Jean shares is "Sometimes" by Mary Oliver, from Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. 

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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, walks us through how to complete the stress cycle, which helps us move through our stress and cultivate resilience.  The 7 ways to complete the stress cycle are exercise, breathing, positive social interaction, laughter, affection, a big ol’ cry, and creative expression. 

You can explore these concepts more in depth by grabbing Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, PhD, & Amelia Nagoski, DMA. 

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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 Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. Enjoy a conversation between our host, Erin Jean, and special guest Callie Swanlund. 

Callie Swanlund is an Episcopal priest, retreat leader, spiritual companion, and coach who helps others know their belovedness and find their Spark. Her new book, From Weary to Wholehearted, is a restorative resource for overcoming ministry burnout. Callie is a creative minister and leads individuals and groups in the work of Dr. Brené Brown as a Certified Daring Way Facilitator. Her How2charist: Digital Instructed Eucharist film has reached Christians and curious individuals around the world, and her Wholehearted Wisdom movement invites others into deeper reflection and connection across social media. Callie is an Episcopal Church Foundation Fellow and has keynoted such conferences as: Kanuga Christian Formation Conference, Episcopal Communicators Annual Conference, and Episcopal Camps and Conference Centers Annual Conference. She lives in Philadelphia with her co-dreaming partner Jeremy, their two tween/teen children, and a rescue pup named Rufus. You can explore her work at www.callieswanlund.com. 

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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 Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. Our host, Erin Jean, begins a new month of the podcast focused on finding peace and wholeheartedness amidst burnout with a scripture reflection. 

This month's scripture passage is Mark 6:1-13, 30-46. 

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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, explores the inevitability of uncertainty and stress, as well as how we can turn toward gratitude and good news to help us navigate these challenges. 

Don’t forget to grab Elissa Epel's book The Stress Prescription: 7 Days to More Joy and Ease. 

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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 freetime 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. Our host, Erin Jean, starts us off with our first exploration of scripture. She talks about how impossible it sounds to rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and give thanks in all circumstances - and a new perspective on how we can receive this good news.

This month's scripture passage is 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18: "Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." 

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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. Our host, Erin Jean, introduces herself and invites listeners to start thinking about what gratitude means to them. In this episode, Erin sets the stage for the rest of the season filled with mindful messages and a few good laughs. 

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Don’t forget to grab Kate Bowler’s book, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved. 

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. 

Join The Rev. Erin Jean Warde each week as she explores the messages of gratitude and good news we find in Scripture and the world around us, as well as through the wisdom of special guests and our own spiritual practice. In a struggling and stressful world, it can feel like we need hope to make it through the day, and a reminder of the goodness and blessings that remain around us, even during challenging seasons. Tune in each week to remember the good news of hope and joy that surrounds and sustains us.