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Episode 111 - Sabbatical: Antidote for Exhaustion, Part 2

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SHOW NOTES

The theme of sabbatical is so much more than finding the time to take a break. A weekend away is not enough to help us return to our former selves, we need a reorientation to time… to reacquaint ourselves with our heart and soul.

We continue the discussion with Jason and Mary Vandel Young about Sabbaticals, and it gets practical and emotional.

As you listen to the podcast, think broader beyond just your work. Your fatigue might not be due to your work at all, it might look altogether different.

About Mary Vandel Young & Jason Young

 
 

Mary Vandel Young’s passion for transformational ministry and soul care has guided her participation, study, leadership and ministry in the area of Christian spiritual formation for more than 20 years. God blessed Mary’s life with JourneyMates in 2006 and has served as Executive Director since 2012.Mary graduated from Baylor University in 1990. She served on Young Life staff nationally and internationally until 2000 and completed a M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2003.

Dr. Jason Young has been working as a psychotherapist since 1997, and has worked in full-time private practice since 2005. Dr. Young has extensive experience, academically and clinically, in the integration of Psychology and Theology. His areas of therapeutic expertise are men’s issues, anxiety, depression, sexual trauma, marital conflict, crises of faith, stressors related to pastoral ministry, and sports psychology.

Mary and Jason live in Raleigh, NC and have two teenage sons, Luke and Tobias, and a precious Shi-Tzu named Petey.

Mentioned in podcast

  • FREE RESOURCE from Partners in Pastor Renewal. FREE guide and a free hour of consultation for planning your sabbatical. (Mention Potter’s Inn when you contact them for the free hour consultation. Contact info is in the Guide)

  • Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren

  • The Lilly Foundation

  • Reading: The Wisdom of Enough by Gwen Harding Smith. (Read Poem)

  • Mary’s Sabbatical Phases (the R’s)

    • 1st Stage: Release and relinquish - pre-sabbatical. Two weeks handing things off: communicating to partners, constituents, etc. Planning for the sabbatical with staff, family, etc.

    • 2nd Stage: Rest and recovery - Ceasing all activity.

    • 3rd Stage: Rest, recreation, and relationships

    • Final stage: Rest again, and realignment. Continuing to rest, to engage in deeper reflection, prayer, and discernment around the influences of the sabbatical in vocational call.

MUSIC USED IN PODCAST

  • First Music Break at 17:44: Japanese Dawn by Daniel Kaede. Provided by Epidemic Sound.

  • Second Music Break at 40:33: A Prayer for Ukraine by Ukrainian composer and pianist Valentin Silvestrov. Performed by the Bamberg Symphony.

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Episode 110 - Sabbatical: Antidote for Exhaustion, Part 1

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SHOW NOTES

This week’s podcast is about the value and need for sabbaticals. There’s just no doubt that the past few years have drained us! Who isn’t exhausted? Who isn’t depleted?

If we think that a weekend away Is enough to help us return to our former selves, then we are in for a crash and burn!

Steve talks with Mary Vandel Young and her husband Jason, about their journey of needing, planning, and taking a sabbatical. This is not a “ how to” podcast. It’s much deeper than that!

About Mary Vandel Young & Jason Young

 
Jason and Mary Vandel Young
 

Mary Vandel Young’s passion for transformational ministry and soul care has guided her participation, study, leadership and ministry in the area of Christian spiritual formation for more than 20 years. God blessed Mary’s life with JourneyMates in 2006 and has served as Executive Director since 2012.Mary graduated from Baylor University in 1990. She served on Young Life staff nationally and internationally until 2000 and completed a M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2003.

Dr. Jason Young has been working as a psychotherapist since 1997, and has worked in full-time private practice since 2005. Dr. Young has extensive experience, academically and clinically, in the integration of Psychology and Theology. His areas of therapeutic expertise are men’s issues, anxiety, depression, sexual trauma, marital conflict, crises of faith, stressors related to pastoral ministry, and sports psychology.

Mary and Jason live in Raleigh, NC and have two teenage sons, Luke and Tobias, and a precious Shi-Tzu named Petey.

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MUSIC USED IN PODCAST

  • First Music Break at 20:58: The Night is so Moonlit (Lyrics)

    • Note: The Night is so Moonlit is a Ukrainian folk song composed by Mykola Lysenko, a nineteenth century composer, to the lyrics of a poem written by Mykhailo Starytsky, a contemporary of Lysenko’s. It has subsequently become one of Ukraine’s most popular folk songs. This particular performance was dedicated to all brave Ukrainian people, who will never surrender. Their freedom is our freedom. Their lives are our lives!

  • Second Music Break at 42:49: In Thy Kingdom (from the Liturgy) · Performed by Kyiv Chamber Choir, A Thousand Years of Ukrainian Sacred Music.



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Episode 109 - Eastern Orthodoxy: The Great & Needed Gift to the West, Part 2

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SHOW NOTES

Today, we continue this conversation with Father David. It’s an incredible story— so relevant to today’s world crisis in Ukraine. What motivates Father David to become Eastern Orthodox, and now a priest? What are the gifts we, in the west , can receive by our brothers and sisters in the East? A stunning, moving, and hopeful conversation where our soul meets the world!

About Father David Morrison

Fr. David Morrison is parish priest at St Anthony Orthodox Church in Bozeman, MT. He received his Master of Divinity degree at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and a B.A. in History from Trinity University in San Antonio. He spent his first year of marriage teaching high school in Guatemala, is a professional musician, and likes good Tex-Mex food. He and his wife have 3 children, and are grateful to live and hike in beautiful Montana.

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MUSIC USED IN PODCAST

  • First Music Break at 16:14: Hymn of the Cherubim (Excerpt) – Performed by State Symphony Capella of Russia. Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky

  • Second Music Break at 33:16: Now the Heavenly Power, performed by Хор Сретенского монастыря.  Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky


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Episode 108 - Eastern Orthodoxy: The Great & Needed Gift to the West, Part 1

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SHOW NOTES

And this service was so strange and weird and beautiful and wonderful. The choir was sort of off to the side, I couldn’t really see them. There was candles all over the place. The priest for the most part was facing east. And the songs were being sung - very peaceful. And I felt the real remarkable sense of the holiness of God, the enormity of God, the otherness of God and the nearness of God, all colliding in a strange way in a matter of about 45 minutes.
— Father David Morrison

The podcast this week is so timely and so needed!

Steve talks with Father David, a Russian Orthodox priest living and working as a priest in Bozeman, Montana. This is a 2-part podcast that will educate, inspire, and help us to embrace another perspective on the faith.

This is a timely conversation as we watch the people of Ukraine face the perils of today. But it is also for those of us eager to learn more, know more, and do more.

About Father David Morrison

 
 

Fr. David Morrison is parish priest at St Anthony Orthodox Church in Bozeman, MT. He received his Master of Divinity degree at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and a B.A. in History from Trinity University in San Antonio. He spent his first year of marriage teaching high school in Guatemala, is a professional musician, and likes good Tex-Mex food. He and his wife have 3 children, and are grateful to live and hike in beautiful Montana.


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MUSIC USED IN PODCAST

  • First Music Break at 19:09 - Hymn to the Theotokos - Russian Kazan Cathedral

  • Second Music Break at 33:47 - Meeting and Vesting of Bishop: A Mercy Of Peace – Performed by Novospassky Monastery Choir


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