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 47 of 283 weeks across the span (17%).
How this church compares
Against other uu 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 somewhat narrower than the site overall.
site avg 0.12
narrowerpeer avgwider
Emotional intensityabout the same
The peaks run about the same than peers, about the same than the site.
site avg 0.64
lowerpeer avghigher
Among uu churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #165 of 243 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it uses a more distinctive, less typical vocabulary for its tradition.
Where this church’s sermons land on the site’s emergent topic map.
Liberal Religious Community 2High School 1Joy Sorrow 1Religious Pluralism 1Sense Belonging 1Congress 1Christmas Easter 1United States 1China: Faith & Evangelism 1Billy Graham 1
Themes they appear in
The recurring topics across the whole archive where this church shows up most.
“real, and all of us know how brave teenagers from Parkland, Florida and the rest of the country are waking up, demanding elected officials listen to…”
“The Synoptic Gospels, those being Matthew, Mark, and Luke, were all written roughly 20 to 30 years after Jesus' death while the temple was still stan…”
“It became a church that had a little more courage to step out of their well-hidden suburban wooded campus and to actually kind of notice that there w…”
“The impact of this great privilege that is being your ministerial intern became more evident in the months after I was offered the position and even…”
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of UU sites
This church
LGBTQ+ affirming
64%
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Creation care / climate
43%
Anti-racism / racial justice
41%
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Economic justice & mutual aid
39%
Open to people of all faiths
34%
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Radical hospitality & accessibility
31%
Immigrant & refugee welcoming
19%
Reproductive justice
13%
Indigenous relations / land acknowledgment
12%
Peace & nonviolence
10%
Prison ministry & restorative justice
8%
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Disability justice
6%
Mental health
5%
Children & youth
80%
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Online worship
66%
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Small groups
57%
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Financial & governance transparency
36%
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Child safety policy
10%
Languages / interpretation
4%
Website & sermons online
This church: audio + video — like 8% of UU churches.
Audio + videoAudio onlyVideo onlySite, no sermonsFeed without audioJS-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 is at the top of the scale.
Values stated, within UU churches: how many of the 29 values we track each church’s website states. This one states 11 — ahead of 86% of UU churches (the typical one states 7).
What their website says
Justice & social positions
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Anti-racism / racial justicesourceJourneying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.
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LGBTQ+ affirmingsourceFirst Parish in Concord has completed the work set forth by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) to become a Welcoming Congregation to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.
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Open to people of all faithssourceGrateful for the religious pluralism which enriches and ennobles our faith, we are inspired to deepen our understanding and expand our vision.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Immigrant & refugee welcoming, Radical hospitality & accessibility, Creation care / climate, Economic justice & mutual aid
Belonging & practical
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Children & youthsourceOur children are with us in the sanctuary for the first fifteen to twenty minutes before going to their religious education classes.
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Online worshipsourceRegular worship services, both in-person and online via Zoom are held each Sunday at 10:00 a.m.
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Small groupssourceSite menu: “Small Group Ministry”
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Not found on the pages we checked: Languages / interpretation
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