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 17 of 17 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 rangeabout the same
Its sermons travel about the same in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and about the same 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 lower
In the voice itself, energy runs noticeably lower than peers, noticeably lower than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among ucc churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #36 of 67 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it uses a more distinctive, less typical vocabulary for its tradition.
“Bridges to belonging is a collaborative effort through Baylor University Intrude Theological Seminary that equips churches with support and resources…”
“Do our neighbors have access to the provisions of God, to the things we might take for granted, like food, clean drinking water, health care, clothes…”
“But both of them remind us that the space between who we say we are and what we actually do is closed one choice at a time by people willing to act,…”
“My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast, and my mouth praises you with joyful lips when I think of you on my bed and meditate on you in the watches…”
The Kingdom of GodFriendship & BelongingWork & Vocation
“For example, I might begin by looking at the parable of the mustard seed, and sharing with you that what strikes me about the smallest of all seeds,…”
“He told me about how initially the congregation planned on taking the rainbow doors down when Pride Month was over, but he urged them to keep them up…”
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of UCC sites
This church
LGBTQ+ affirming
57%
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Economic justice & mutual aid
35%
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Radical hospitality & accessibility
17%
Peace & nonviolence
17%
Anti-racism / racial justice
11%
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Creation care / climate
9%
Open to people of all faiths
7%
Immigrant & refugee welcoming
7%
Children & youth
68%
Online worship
49%
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Small groups
36%
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 4 — behind 52% of UCC churches (the typical one states 4).
Economic justice & mutual aidsourceThis program is run by CommunityCare of Lyme and staffed with volunteers from the Lyme School. Lyme Food Pantry We are honored to house the Lyme Food Pantry, funded and operated by Community Care of Lyme .
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Not found on the pages we checked: Open to people of all faiths, Immigrant & refugee welcoming, Radical hospitality & accessibility, Creation care / climate
Belonging & practical
✓
Online worshipsourceIf you cannot attend LCC in person, you may livestream the service on our website, or watch the service later on YouTube at your convenience.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Children & youth, Languages / interpretation, Small groups
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