The Pulpiteer
by Eric Hepburn
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Flashback — Head, Heart, and Gut Time Orientations, and How Running…
Flashback — Head, Heart, and Gut Time Orientations, and How Running…
About this podcast
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".
Episodes
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- Flashback — Head, Heart, and Gut Time Orientations, and How Running Became a Spiritual Practice · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 11"We don't run to get hard. We run to get soft." We've been working with gut, heart, and head folks for a few months now, and this morning I add another layer to the onion: each…
- Bullseye — Sin as Missing the Mark and the Near Enemies That Cluster Around Every Deep Truth (10-4-2026) · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 10If you had asked me when I was going to preach a sermon on sin, I would have guessed never. This is the first of what I expect to become a series: taking a word we've developed…
- The Unfolding — Origami, the Quaker Clearness Committee, and the Wisdom You Already Have (9/27/2026) · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 9"You have access to the deepest wisdom you need within you." This episode explores the life journey through the metaphor of origami. An artist starts with a single square. They…
- Take Your Place: An Ecosystem Has No Spare Parts, and Why Your Worth Is Not What You Do (9/13/2026) · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 8"Your contribution to the work does not define your worth." A shorter episode than usual — homily length. Before the service we held a teams fair, where congregants could visit…
- The Way of Water — Carolyn McDade, Lucile Schuck Longview, and the Feminist Origins of the UU Water Communion (9-06-2026) · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 7"When you shed a tear, it is likely that some of the water in your tears has been cried before. Maybe many times. Maybe countless times." This is a recording of our Water…
- Choice, Then Agency, Finally Liberation — Paulo Freire on the Fear of Freedom, Autonomy, and the Quest for Human Completion (8-30-2026) · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 6"We are not free from triggers, but we can develop the skills to recognize those triggers when they happen." In this episode I work line by line through a dense passage from…
- Journey to Wholeness: Stephen Jenkinson, Embodied Practice, and Why Wholeness Is Not a Hierarchy (8-16-2026) · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 5"Your body is neither an inconvenience nor tertiary to your existence." This episode is an invitation into embodied practice — and a correction to something the summer sermon…
- Be Social Change — Spirit, Guides, and Weavers: Softening Into the Light · 20 min · Season 3 Episode 4"It is possible to be free. Not free from anger, or shame, or fear — but free among them: transparent to the light, a window the light shines through." The final service in the…
- Think Social Change: How the Enneagram's Thinking Triad Metabolizes Fear as Visionaries, Builders, and Storytellers. · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 3The third sermon in The Pulpiteer's four-part series reading Deepa Iyer's social change ecosystem — from her book Social Change Now, the 2025–26 Unitarian Universalist…
- Lovely Day — Reclaiming Faith as a Present-Tense Practice, with Bill Withers and Ross Gay (6/14/2026) · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 35The season two finale of The Pulpiteer is a love letter — to a congregation, to podcast listeners, and to a word that has been weaponized for too many people: faith. Preached on…
- Feel Social Change: Caregivers, Healers, and the Enneagram's Feeling Triad (7-12-2026) · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 2The second sermon in The Pulpiteer's four-part series reading Deepa Iyer's social change ecosystem — from her book Social Change Now, the 2025–26 Unitarian Universalist…
- Do Social Change (7-6-2026) · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 1We begin a four-part series exploring Deepa Iyer's social change ecosystem through the lens of human development — starting where the body starts: in the gut, with those who move…
- Flourishing Together (6-7-26) · 17 min · Season 2 Episode 34When rituals centered on human institutions lose their luster, where can we turn to find renewed meaning and connection? The flower communion is one gesture toward a deeper…
- Simplicity, Complexity, Simplicity Again (5-31-26) · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 33"For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have."…
- Covenant to Courage (5-24-26) · 22 min · Season 2 Episode 32We’ll struggle today with how covenant - a set of promises that binds a community - can be a source for the courage and how, through combining the work of Parker Palmer and James…
- Learn Love Grow (5-3-2026) · 21 min · Season 2 Episode 31This year's stewardship theme is Learn, Love, Grow — three words that describe what SGUUF does every week and three words that describe what we're asking of ourselves as a…
- Set Them Free (4-19-26) · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 30"If you love someone, set them free." - Sting How can this way of putting Love at the Center, inform how we approach Religion as modern UU's? Not just in how we serve the adults…
- The Wall and The Tunnel (4-5-2026) · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 29There is a wall, a veil, between our world and the spirit world... the sages and prophets found ways through the wall, they brought back teachings from the spirit world. They…
- Simone Weil's Decreation (3-22-26) · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 28In our third and final service in the Simone Weil Series, we'll explore the culminating movement of her thought: DECREATION. I'll get you pointed in the right direction with this…
- Simone Weil's Obligations and Rights (3-8-26) · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 27For Women's History Month, we'll continue our exploration of the work of Simone Weil - moving from her work on attention as spiritual practice, to her social justice oriented…
