Healing and Leadership (Part 2) w/ Archbishop Alexander Sample

Restore The Glory Podcast

Jake Khym

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jake and Bob welcome a very special guest onto the podcast from Portland, OR: Archbishop Alexander Sample. Appointed a Bishop at the young age of 45, Archbishop Sample has served over 15 years in the episcopate and has recently embarked on a journey of healing that has totally transformed his approach to spiritual fatherhood of priests. Together with Jake and Bob, Archbishop Sample shares some key childhood wounds and healing in parts of his story, demonstrating how healing helps unite us to Christ and those we lead.

Guiding Quote: It’s not the critic who counts… The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. - Theodore Roosevelt

Key points:

How the Archbishop began his healing journey about two years ago
The Archbishop shares vulnerably about father wounds and bullying he experienced as a young boy
Jake affirms strength in vulnerability and the safety it creates
How brokenness has affected Archbishop Sample and his leadership, particularly in his relationship as a spiritual father to his priests
How healing has impacted the Archbishop’s spiritual fatherhood and relationship with the priests in his Archdiocese
The importance of having people in your life who are instruments of healing
How a leader’s healing and transparency can lead to healing in the people he leads

Practical Application:

Ask yourself, “Am I willing to do what I ask of others?”
What are some parts of your story that you aren’t ready to tell yet? Might you need more healing in these areas?
Write an encouraging letter to a priest or bishop in your diocese. We often only reach out to them when we have a bone to pick!

Resources:

Archbishop Sample’s bio with the Archdiocese of Portland, OR
Archbishop Sample’s Twitter: @ArchbishpSample
Forty Weeks to Healing and Transformation for Priests (book)
Be Healed (book)
Man in the Arena quote from Theodore Roosevelt

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0:00.0	Welcome to Restore the Glory Podcast.
0:07.0	My name is Jake Kim.
0:11.0	And I'm Bob Schutz. We're two Catholic therapists sharing what we've learned personally and professionally to help you on the journey of restoration.
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0:41.0	experiencing the restoration of our God-given glory.
0:44.3	Hey Bob, good to be back with you again.
0:47.1	I'm glad that we have a special guest with us and before we do that just listeners in case you're wondering why I sound weird I was on a basketball
0:56.1	camp with my son and I coached a lot let's say that I used my coaching voice and now I don't have one. But anyway, just so in case it sounds weird. But Bob, we're in our leadership series and we have our first guest in our leadership series and a dear friend of both of ours and a wonderful man I'll let you introduce
1:16.2	our special guest Archbishop Alex Sample from Portland so why don't you give us some more info on
1:22.4	Archbishop?
1:23.2	Yeah, it's been a it's been a grace gift to be able to get to know Archbishop
1:29.8	sample these last year maybe less than a year and Archbishop sample is the Archbishop
1:40.0	of Portland Diocese in Oregon and Sister Miriam and I were just out there with his whole
1:47.0	presbyorate and just saw the courage and vulnerability of his openness with his priests and his desire for the diocese and we also,
1:59.0	Jake you and I, had a great privilege of having Archbishop Sample as part of our Bishop's retreat.
2:05.6	And I think we not only had a great deal of fun just laughing together and doing all that, but it was a really powerful retreat and so just seeing
2:17.7	Archbishop Samples openness and his leadership and stepping in in this way,
2:23.0	we thought he'd be the great first guest for us.
2:27.0	Yes.
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