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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Good News and Gratitude
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.
