Every audio sermon week across the years we have — a filled cell is a week with an upload, darker blue means richer topics. A steady weekly cadence shows as a solid band across years.
LessMore·no upload·known, not transcribed
Each cell is one week · darker blue = richer topics (clean, sermon-only audio scores higher) · pale = thin, faint = no upload · gold outline = known, not yet transcribed · red outline = broken/failed file · uploaded in 7 of 7 weeks across the span (100%).
How this church compares
Against other ucc and against every sermon on the site. Signals are approximate and grow more reliable as more of the archive is scored.
●this church┃peer average┃site average
Emotional rangesomewhat narrower
Its sermons travel somewhat narrower in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and about the same than the site overall.
site avg 0.12
narrowerpeer avgwider
Emotional intensitysomewhat higher
The peaks run somewhat higher than peers, somewhat higher than the site.
site avg 0.64
lowerpeer avghigher
Dynamic deliverysomewhat higher
In the voice itself, energy runs somewhat higher than peers, somewhat higher than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among ucc churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #41 of 67 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it reads as characteristically ucc.
“Again, I'm not, I very much hope the United States is able to maintain a functioning and working relationship with China, but I'm, you know, so I'm n…”
“And because of the domestic surveillance, because of, you know, the paranoia of Jay Hoover and the desire by the Johnson administration to deal with…”
“So, what else, Providence, Rhode Island, there's a very famous university there called Johnson and Wales, which is a cooking school, and I guess then…”
“That's when I thought my goodness, the Supreme Court is failing us, they're not allowing all the votes to be counted and that really sparked me to ge…”
Sep 30, 2026 · racism race justice black lives matter
Faith & Civic LifeReason & Free Inquiry
“I mean, the one significant bill that they've at least the Senate has passed is one to restrict the amount of income that college athletes can make,…”
“And I've given you some of the documents about that and it's basically what it set up is that under certain categories that these people people can a…”
“He said, you know Justin, people hear you every week and you're always asking these great questions of other people but we never get to ask you any q…”
“If that kind of loneliness seems foreign to you, you're lucky, and probably below a certain age, like cancer chronic loneliness, is a tragedy for the…”
“The area is actually really awesome, it's like Lisa said, it's right off the highway and you can get right there, we've got lots of parking available…”
“I'm sure I'm sure absolutely So you all have done some innovative things there at new look new life with respect to the environmental impact of what…”
Faith & Civic LifePeace & NonviolenceBeloved Community
“And right next to my friend's house This is a plot that was sold off to a relative of this man who lived in the United States and had the money to co…”
Poverty & CompassionAddiction & RecoveryFaith & Civic Life
“Now, with Vocal, it's totally different, because I feel like I'm paying my debt to society to help my brothers and sisters out here who are suffering…”
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LGBTQ+ affirming
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Economic justice & mutual aid
35%
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Radical hospitality & accessibility
17%
Peace & nonviolence
17%
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Anti-racism / racial justice
11%
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Creation care / climate
9%
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Open to people of all faiths
7%
Immigrant & refugee welcoming
7%
Children & youth
68%
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Online worship
49%
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Small groups
36%
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Child safety policy
11%
Financial & governance transparency
10%
Languages / interpretation
1%
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Website & sermons online
This church: site, no sermons — like 27% of UCC churches.
Audio + videoAudio onlyVideo onlySite, no sermonsJS-only siteBlocked / timeoutDead or hijackedNo website
Website completeness, all churches: a rough score of how complete and easy-to-navigate the church’s own website is.
Among the 3,012 churches with a readable, rated website (scores of 0 and 100 left out), this one scores higher than about 58%.
Values stated, within UCC churches: how many of the 29 values we track each church’s website states. This one states 11 — ahead of 97% of UCC churches (the typical one states 4).
What their website says
Justice & social positions
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Anti-racism / racial justicesourceWe have a longstanding commitment to both internal and external anti racist work, and participate and support FREC (The Facilitating Racial Equity Collaborative) and ASDIC (Anti Racism Dialog Study Circles).
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LGBTQ+ affirmingsourceOur welcome includes full inclusion of the LGBTQIA+ and Non-Binary community.
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Creation care / climatesourceOur Solar Array From Above With tender care for our planet and a (fierce) commitment to environmental justice, we share our acts as prayers, from tending our rain garden, sharing solar energy, and advocating with Congress for socially just, effective climate action.
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Economic justice & mutual aidsourceWe are committed to environmental and economic justice.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Open to people of all faiths, Immigrant & refugee welcoming, Radical hospitality & accessibility
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Children & youthsourceWe also provide a nursery with staff and volunteer attendants for children age 3 months through first grade.
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Languages / interpretationsourceAn annual bilingual worship service in memory of Monsignor Romero Upcoming Events Cherokee Park United offers hybrid worship.
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Online worshipsourceWe gather in-person and live-stream the service each Fall-Winter-Spring Sunday at 10:15 am on … Read more Here and Now… A message from Pastor Matthias - During a workshop this spring, we were asked to picture the world as we hope it to be seven generations from … Read more Faith in Action The DNA of our church has always been to engage in social justice as an important way we express our faith.
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