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 38 of 201 weeks across the span (19%).
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 wider
Its sermons travel somewhat wider in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and noticeably wider than the site overall.
site avg 0.12
narrowerpeer avgwider
Emotional intensitysomewhat lower
The peaks run somewhat lower than peers, about the same 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 uu churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #56 of 243 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it reads as characteristically uu.
Where this church’s sermons land on the site’s emergent topic map.
Dante 4Bread Wine 3United States 2Makes Sense 2Passage Isaiah 2High School 2Francis: Poverty & Saints 2Heavenly Father 2Protestant: Baptism & Reformation 2Suffering Comes 2
Themes they appear in
The recurring topics across the whole archive where this church shows up most.
“So God reveals himself, indeed, by opening the Red Sea in the living room, and also in words, by giving the Ten Commandments- and the Torah are the l…”
“The times were talking about freedom and Liberation, and politics is saying: if you really want Liberation, there's only one place to get it, and tha…”
God the Father / CreatorHumanismBaptism & Communion
“And you always know when the prophecy is winding up, because the priest gets the end of the prophecy says: and so with all the angels in heaven, we s…”
“My father, had a thing: you always have an empty seat at the table for the holiday feast without somebody else at the table, and that was part of our…”
Baptism & CommunionHoly SpiritGod the Father / Creator
“But yeah, there's a whole bunch of protestant traditions where their baptism is, and so the church says conditionally, we have to be no, they, most o…”
“Or number one, promiscuity, marital infidelity and breakdown of the is contraception, widely used outside marriage, contraception, abortion, or at ve…”
“If I were Mother Teresa and I looked over and saw me sitting next to me at the table in the Eternal banquet, I would be like: I'm sorry, I don't know…”
“Number four: it is possible to suffer in joy, and so Purgatory, even though it is a place of suffering, longing, the suffering that comes from longin…”
God the Father / CreatorSin & RepentanceFear & Anxiety
“He really sees he's had it with people with a lot of money, taking advantage of other people will, using people of the poor, the social justice quest…”
Sin & RepentanceReformation SundaySpiritual Growth
“Dante's thesis is: you cannot understand Heaven, you cannot appreciate Heaven if you don't go down as he's going through these circles of hell right,…”
Faith & DoubtThe Kingdom of GodGod the Father / Creator
“Our the other things on the face of the Earth are created for man to help in attaining the end, for which he has hence managed to make use of them as…”
“We now go to that most sacred part of the Liturgy, where we're going to consecrate the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus, and so going…”
“Rue for the modernism in postmodernism and living in the secular society, that there's something about the ongoing life of the sacraments that make u…”
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Fear & AnxietyShame & GuiltSuffering & Perseverance
“So I guess part of it is having somebody to process this journey with, and I think that one of the pathetic things about Francis Thompson drove him t…”
“For those of you who aren't here last week, you should listen to podcast, because we're starting mid-may now and so don't think I don't think the fir…”
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of UU sites
This church
LGBTQ+ affirming
65%
Creation care / climate
43%
Anti-racism / racial justice
41%
Economic justice & mutual aid
39%
Open to people of all faiths
34%
Radical hospitality & accessibility
31%
Immigrant & refugee welcoming
19%
Reproductive justice
13%
Indigenous relations / land acknowledgment
12%
Peace & nonviolence
10%
Prison ministry & restorative justice
9%
Disability justice
6%
Mental health
5%
Children & youth
80%
Online worship
67%
Small groups
58%
Financial & governance transparency
37%
Child safety policy
10%
Languages / interpretation
4%
Website & sermons online
This church: site, no sermons — like 9% 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 scores higher than about 8%.
Values stated, within UU churches: how many of the 29 values we track each church’s website states. This one states 0 — behind 94% of UU churches (the typical one states 7).
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
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Not found on the pages we checked: Children & youth, Languages / interpretation, Online worship, Small groups
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