Eric Hepburn

The Pulpiteer

Religion EN ↓ 78 episodes

The Pulpiteer is a podcast series aimed at those seeking as honest, earnest, and bold an engagement with the hard questions of life as we can muster. The goal is to foster wisdom, health, and connection. The podcast is a production of the San Gabriel Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Georgetown, Texas, with your host, Eric Hepburn, "The Pulpiteer".

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Eric Hepburn

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Mothers Lost, Mothers Found 13.05.2024 33:53

Mother's Day started as a Peace Movement, but what has it become? Between it's lost peace roots and our fraught relationship with gender-roles, can we find a meaningful space for celebration? for gratitude? for hard-earned lessons? Well, we're going to try. With a little bit of that exoteric vs. esoteric discernment that we started exploring last month, and a smidge of gratitude for th...

No Sticks, No Carrots, Just Love 06.05.2024 24:25

In episode two of The Pulpiteer, we'll struggle with Jesus' core prophetic teaching of the transformative power of love. We'll use two contemporaries, Marshall Rosenberg and Alfie Kohn, to help us bring this wisdom into focus and to ask some hard questions.

What is Church For? 29.04.2024 21:50

In this first episode of the Pulpiteer Podcast, we'll tackle this question: What is Church For? Is it a social club? Or a general purpose social justice non-profit? Is it an entertainment? A show? A musical performance? A Sunday morning day-care respite? Is it a lecture? A ceremony? A ritual? A backstage pass to the preferred afterlife? (revised version October 2024, intro music included)