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 19 of 21 weeks across the span (90%).
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 rangenoticeably wider
Its sermons travel noticeably wider in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and noticeably wider 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, noticeably higher than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among ucc churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #6 of 67 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it leans toward the vocabulary of another tradition.
“And that led to the case about gender-affirming care in Tennessee, Scrametti, went to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court quoted the New York Times…”
“And I mentioned to some of them like, did you guys know that some Christians in the United States who actually really big platforms stay that sociali…”
“If you are getting a PhD, if you are at a university, if you are an academic, if you are clear G, if you are a scholar, please get basic social media…”
“And I think for a lot of ex-vangelicals or people who are evangelicals angelicals who feel spiritually and politically homeless right now, especially…”
Baptism & CommunionPoverty & CompassionChurch Life & Membership
“I think that Christianity is far bigger for richer, far older, and far more wise than a lot of us were ever told, especially if we only know about Ch…”
“And I had just gone through a divorce in the last year before that and that was enough for me I was like a female pastor who's also a divorce and her…”
“But that wasn't necessarily, nobody in my house was walking around like trying to you know preach in the morning or like over dinner you know like we…”
“I mean, one of the things that most LGBT people, but most Americans don't recognize is that every major mainline denomination at an institutional lev…”
“I'm the child of a Mexican immigrant who has five birth certificates manufactured, didn't know her legal name when she went to apply for Social Secur…”
“A wonderful message to Tim Schrader, Rodriguez, congratulations on the book, thanks for joining joining us this morning conversion therapy dropout av…”
“And she is known for her pastoral presence, her advocacy for LGBTQ plus inclusion and her commitment to bringing the the Bishop's office into local c…”
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionJesus: Life & TeachingsFaith & Civic Life
“And so I think one of the successes to interfaith work is to recognize that we're not always going to agree on everything and that's okay but we do n…”
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of UCC sites
This church
LGBTQ+ affirming
57%
Economic justice & mutual aid
35%
Radical hospitality & accessibility
17%
Peace & nonviolence
17%
Anti-racism / racial justice
11%
Creation care / climate
9%
Open to people of all faiths
7%
Immigrant & refugee welcoming
7%
Disability justice
3%
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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
2%
Website & sermons online
This church: video only — like 48% 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 5 — ahead of 60% of UCC churches (the typical one states 4).
What their website says
Justice & social positions
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Not found on the pages we checked: Anti-racism / racial justice, LGBTQ+ affirming, Open to people of all faiths, Immigrant & refugee welcoming, Radical hospitality & accessibility, Creation care / climate, Economic justice & mutual aid
Belonging & practical
✓
Children & youthsourceAfter Children’s Chat, children will leave the sanctuary with the Sunday School staff.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Languages / interpretation
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