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 9 of 10 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 narrower
Its sermons travel noticeably narrower in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and noticeably narrower than the site overall.
site avg 0.12
narrowerpeer avgwider
Emotional intensitysomewhat lower
The peaks run somewhat lower than peers, somewhat lower than the site.
site avg 0.64
lowerpeer avghigher
Dynamic deliverynoticeably higher
In the voice itself, energy runs noticeably higher than peers, noticeably higher than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among ucc churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #57 of 67 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it reads as characteristically ucc.
“So I want to ask you, you know, thinking about the county component of this, where does Multnomah County fit in in addressing the climate crisis for…”
“Our handling of the CI hub will show Portland's commitment to environmental justice, climate action, and most importantly, secure to safe community f…”
“As today, September 22 marks the highest national average price of diesel ever recorded, continuing a string of records set nearly every day over the…”
“and move to transportation that we can all afford and that is accessible and safe for all of us to get around without using fossil fuels and to be sa…”
“American Indian College Fund President Cheryl Crazyball says the report provides significant evidence of chronic underfunding by the federal governme…”
“public opposition against Zenith as a fossil fuel company has expanded to broader awareness and concerns about the dangers posed by the critical ener…”
“More likely is it that its proxies such as the Houthis in Yemen will attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz and other targets in countries aligned with…”
“But at this point at least we have addressed a lot of that over logging on federal lands now like the vast majority of timber That's that's logged in…”
“But another thing he talks about was being stalked by a man with mental health issues who would call him at three, four in the morning, pressing him…”
Immigration & RefugeFear & AnxietyFaith & Civic Life
“And then also people who are applying for permanent residency currently outside the United States, so I think it comes in forms of spouses, of parent…”
“Hey, here's what everybody was saying about like, you know, in 2024, that was the climate crisis was like the top thing that our listeners wanted to…”
“I've personally planted over 30 trees and have another 100 that I'm growing to develop shade for the animals to combat what is already happening to o…”
“And if we fast forward to 2026, they've really, in recent years, walked back a lot of their climate commitments and seemed to be doubling down on fos…”
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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%
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Immigrant & refugee welcoming
7%
Children & youth
68%
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Online worship
49%
Small groups
36%
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 2 — behind 76% of UCC churches (the typical one states 4).
What their website says
Justice & social positions
✓
Open to people of all faithssourceOur tradition was chosen because of being uniquely gifted to serve people of diverse beliefs and backgrounds.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Anti-racism / racial justice, LGBTQ+ affirming, Immigrant & refugee welcoming, Radical hospitality & accessibility, Creation care / climate, Economic justice & mutual aid
Belonging & practical
✓
Children & youthsourceOn Sundays we have a kid’s message then Sunday School for kids ages 2-10.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Languages / interpretation, Online worship, Small groups
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