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 35 of 383 weeks across the span (9%).
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 wider
Its sermons travel somewhat wider in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and somewhat wider than the site overall.
site avg 0.12
narrowerpeer avgwider
Emotional intensitysomewhat higher
The peaks run somewhat higher than peers, about the same than the site.
site avg 0.64
lowerpeer avghigher
Among ucc churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #23 of 67 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it leans toward the vocabulary of another tradition.
Most-preached topics
Creation Care 9Advent & Christmas 7Hope & Encouragement 7Faith & Doubt 4Immigration & Refuge 3Marriage 3New Year & Watch Night 3Fear & Anxiety 3
Recurring themes across the archive
Where this church’s sermons land on the site’s emergent topic map.
Climate Change Conference 3Divorce Rate 1Wait Minute 1Holiday Season 1Hold Second 1Burden Proof 1
Themes they appear in
The recurring topics across the whole archive where this church shows up most.
“Intellectually dishonest advertisers of many weight loss companies have the burden of proof to convince you to give them your money and too often mak…”
“So we are living, you know, know, in this house of doom, the house, wait a minute, hold on, house of doom, it just feels like that sometimes, and it…”
Found on this church’s websiteOther UCC churchesAll churches
The percentage is how many UCC churches’ websites state that value; the bar turns orange where this church’s website states it too.
of UCC sites
This church
LGBTQ+ affirming
57%
Economic justice & mutual aid
35%
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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%
Children & youth
68%
Online worship
49%
Small groups
36%
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Child safety policy
11%
Financial & governance transparency
10%
Languages / interpretation
2%
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 3 — behind 65% of UCC churches (the typical one states 4).
What their website says
Justice & social positions
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Economic justice & mutual aidsourceThe Sharing Cupboard receives food from the Worcester County Food Bank and donations from local businesses and individuals, and is staffed by a dedicated group of volunteers who stock the shelves and pack the orders for the clients.
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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
Belonging & practical
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Small groupssourceIn 1665 a small group of men from Ipswich, having obtained a grant from the Puritan authorities in Boston, came out over the Old Bay Path through what was then wilderness to a place called Quaboag.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Children & youth, Languages / interpretation, Online worship
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