S2 E13 of Mythic Mission: "Things Don't Get Easier, But You Keep Getting Better": An Interview with Coach PJ Shirdan

This episode is dedicated in loving memory to my Dad, David George Jahosky, Sr. I miss and love you so much.

This is my second semester in which I share an "AMA" (ask me anything) discussion with my college students at SPC. This is my Monday Wednesday 10am Fall 2023 class. Enjoy these bright young people's questions and my responses!

AWWWWWWWWWWW YEAA! Honored to have another one of my boxing coaches on the show today share his life story, how he came to faith in Christ, mental health, the importance of community and vulnerability for men, football, boxing, and much more. I pray that this episode inspires you and blesses you in some way. Check out Fight Camp here!: https://joinfightcamp.com/

For the first time ever, I invited my Summer 2023 students to record a podcast episode with me as part of their class discussion grade in an "AMA" (Ask me Anything) format, and the results were amazing! Great hearts and minds here in this class, and very proud of them and honored to be their professor. We cover a LOT of important topics today. I hope you enjoy this showcase of the amazing students we have here at St Petersburg College

You heard it first! I coined a new word! The title says it all folks. I pray you are blessed by (and enjoy) this informal, Italian kitchen table-like Socratic dialogue between my guest and I, who have quite a lot in common. Okay, see ya--I'm flying out to study under Dr. Marino both inside and outside of the ring! https://wp.stolaf.edu/philosophy/gordon-marino/ https://www.amazon.com/Existentialists-Survival-Guide-Authentically-Inauthentic/dp/0062436007/ref=asc_df_0062436007/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=375302224058&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2294339463859405426&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9012142&hvtargid=pla-801565926664&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=79623292787&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=375302224058&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2294339463859405426&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9012142&hvtargid=pla-801565926664

My second interview with Dr. Paul Gould of Palm Beach Atlantic University is about his most recent book, A Good and True Story, which you can find here: http://www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/a-good-and-true-story/407320 or on Amazon. Learn more about PBA's Program which Gould is the director of here: https://www.pba.edu/ Please consider supporting our show! Thank you for listening!

First academic interview of the new year! Listen in to my discussion with Dr. Sharon Dirckx about the mind/body problem, the question of identity, and why the view that we are JUST our brains does not convince. Find her book here!: https://www.amazon.com/Am-I-Just-My-Brain/dp/178498275X

My comeback episode! In this episode, I get personal and give my audience a status report on how I've been doing before introducing my guest. If you're part of the Mythic Mission Facebook group (by becoming a Patreon member--go to www.mythicmission.com to learn how), then you've probably already heard this update...but for those of you who haven't, in the first few minutes, I give you an update on what I've been dealing with the last 6 months. Then, I connect this to why I invited Tommy Duquette, co-founder of the at home fitness and boxing program called Fight Camp. I am hoping to encourage all of you, especially if you are engaged in education apologetics like I am, to take good care of ALL of you. God created us as complex beings: soul, body, heart, imagination, and intellect. C.S. Lewis scholar Alister E. McGrath put it this way: "Lewis would remind us that apologists need to be looked after. They get spiritually drained." In the rest of the episode, I explain how Fight Camp has significantly improved my health and well-being and has begun to help me "fight back." If you're looking to get into great shape, battle anxiety and depression, deal with stress, or lose weight, Fight Camp can help you get there. Check them out here:  https://joinfightcamp.com/ I also mention J.P. Moreland's excellent book about his personal battle with anxiety in today's episode--I can't tell you how much it's helped me. The book is called Finding Quiet.  It's good to be back!

On today’s show, I am interviewing Dr. Christopher Yuan, who graduated from Moody Bible Institute in 2005 and received a master’s in biblical exegesis in 2007 and a doctorate of ministry in 2014.Christopher taught the Bible at Moody Bible Institute for twelve years and his speaking ministry on faith and sexuality has reached five continents. He speaks at conferences, on college campuses, and in churches. Dr. Yuan has co-authored with his mother their memoir, Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God, A Broken Mother’s Search for Hope, which has sold over 100,000 copies and is now in eight languages. Dr. Yuan’s newest book ,Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story, was named 2020 Book of the Year for Social Issues by Outreach Magazine. He has been interviewed in many media outlets, including Christianity Today, In the Market with Janet Parshall, The Eric Metaxas Show and The Christian Post. Visit christopheryuan.com for more information.  Follow him on Twitter/Instagram @christopheryuan, fb.com/christopheryuan, and youtube.com/christopheryuan Learn more about Mythic Mission and Mythic Mission Tabletop Apologetics at: www.mythicmission.com and consider supporting us on Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/mythicmission **Make sure to check out: https://holysexuality.com to learn more about Dr. Yuan's forthcoming curriculum for parents and youth!**

Hello everyone! Welcome to S2E6 of Mythic Mission with Professor Michael Jahosky, a podcast which explores J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis's understanding of myth as "grand narrative" and its relationship with various disciplines of the Humanities from a Christian perspective. On today’s show, I am interviewing Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson who is the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas. She is the author of several books, but most recently, The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Saints. She has received numerous fellowships, grants, and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship to the Czech Republic, an NEH grant to study Dante in Florence in 2014, and the Biola Center for Christian Thought sabbatical fellowship. In 2018 she received the Emerging Public Intellectual Award given by a coalition of North American think tanks in collaboration with the Centre for Christian Scholarship at Redeemer University College, and in 2019 she received the Hiett Prize in Humanities from The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. You can learn more about her at her website here: https://jessicahootenwilson.com Learn more about Mythic Mission at: www.mythicmission.com and consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mythicmission