Reacting to Pastor Eddie Lapina's Purity Culture Sermon at FBC Hammond's Youth Conference
About this episode
Eric Skwarczynski reacts to a sermon on purity culture by Eddie Lapina, discussing its implications and harmful messaging.
EVERYONE who signs up to my giveaway will receive a FREE Rose suction toy with their @bellesaco order! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/preacherboys-podcast #bbpartner ✖️✖️✖️ In this episode of the Preacher Boys Podcast, host Eric Skwarczynski reacts to a purity culture sermon preached by Eddie Lapina, assistant pastor at First Baptist Church of Hammond, at a youth conference. Using two apples as an object lesson, Lapina compares sexual activity to bruising and "splitting open" fruit that forever loses it's value. Eric unpacks the sermon's violent language around sex, the objectification baked into purity culture teaching, and how this kind of messaging disproportionately targets young women. He also reacts to the moment Lapina brings his own granddaughter on stage as a live illustration for the sermon, and shares insight from sex educator Erica Smith on how purity culture teaching can compound harm for survivors of sexual abuse. ✖️✖️✖️ CONNECT WITH THE SHOW: preacherboyspodcast.com https://www.youtube.com/@PreacherBoys https://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/ https://twitter.com/preacherboysdoc https://www.instagram.com/preacherboyspod…
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Host: Eric Skwarczynski
Topics covered
- purity culture
- sexuality
- youth conference
- objectification
- abuse survivors
- sermon analysis
Keywords
- purity culture
- Eddie Lapina
- sermon
- sexual abuse
- object lesson
- youth
- First Baptist Church of Hammond
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Organizations: First Baptist Church of Hammond
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