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 282 weeks across the span (12%).
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 somewhat narrower than the site overall.
site avg 0.12
narrowerpeer avgwider
Emotional intensitysomewhat higher
The peaks run somewhat higher than peers, somewhat higher than the site.
site avg 0.64
lowerpeer avghigher
Dynamic deliverysomewhat higher
In the voice itself, energy runs somewhat higher than peers, somewhat higher than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among ucc churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #50 of 67 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it uses a more distinctive, less typical vocabulary for its tradition.
Most-preached topics
Faith & Civic Life 21Parenting & Children 10Creation Care 10Advent & Christmas 6Grief & Lament 5Friendship & Belonging 5Fear & Anxiety 5Service & Spiritual Gifts 5
Recurring themes across the archive
Where this church’s sermons land on the site’s emergent topic map.
Climate Change Conference 4Santa 4United States 3Santa Claus 3High School 2Social Media 1Singing Christmas Carol 1Seat Table 1China: Faith & Evangelism 1Clinical Trials 1
Themes they appear in
The recurring topics across the whole archive where this church shows up most.
“So I should send you the interview that I had with him but it was very touching and it was very personal and I remember when I wrote an article of pr…”
“I started with able to start playing with that immediately, you know, playing the skeleton rhythm to the opener, which Rock beat 1A actually works, y…”
“And then by the time I got to high school, I had already been with some amazing teachers, Jeff Leonard, Mark Pinto, some great teachers, saxophone pl…”
“I think a lot of people look at Twitter as like, why would you put your phone number out there on social, especially like Twitter, which I know has b…”
Creation CareNew Year & Watch NightAdvent & Christmas
“While the women were surrendering to their baking assignments and dining aprons, the kids were dreaming of what sent would bring them while sneaking…”
“Despite a median household income of in town, $120,000, that is in the top quarter of communities statewide wide and $40,000 higher than the state av…”
Faith & Civic LifeGender & Sexuality / InclusionParenting & Children
“Clients have included the Belmont Public Library, Harvard University, Raytheon, the U. S. Army, and a lot of assortment of restaurants and businesses.”
“Belmont Helps, a Windbrook Parent Teacher Association, a 501c3 committee, is a 100% volunteer organization founded on March 14, 2020 to connect Belmo…”
“The free event will be presented by students at Belmont High School and recent alums in association with partners in health engage, the Social Action…”
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LGBTQ+ affirming
57%
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Economic justice & mutual aid
35%
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Radical hospitality & accessibility
17%
Peace & nonviolence
17%
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Anti-racism / racial justice
11%
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Creation care / climate
9%
Open to people of all faiths
7%
Immigrant & refugee welcoming
6%
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Prison ministry & restorative justice
1%
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Children & youth
68%
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Online worship
49%
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Small groups
36%
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Child safety policy
11%
Financial & governance transparency
10%
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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 11 — ahead of 97% of UCC churches (the typical one states 4).
What their website says
Justice & social positions
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Anti-racism / racial justicesourceWe are an Anti-Racist Church ONA Covenant Our ONA Covenant On Sunday, March 6, 2022, we voted to adopt our ONA Covenant, becoming the 1,754th UCC church to adopt an ONA Covenant.
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LGBTQ+ affirmingsourceWe believe that all of the baptized 'belong body and soul to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.' No matter who – no matter what – no matter where we are on life's journey – notwithstanding race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, class or creed – we all belong to God and to one worldwide community of faith.
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Immigrant & refugee welcomingsourceWe work with POWIR , People/Parishes Organized to Welcome Immigrants & Refugees.
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Economic justice & mutual aidsourceWe raised $1,000 for common cathedral and their partnership with the unhoused!
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Not found on the pages we checked: Open to people of all faiths, Radical hospitality & accessibility, Creation care / climate
Belonging & practical
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Children & youthsource(photo March 2026) "We love the music at Payson Park!" "I like being part of Payson Park Church because the sermons are interesting and wonderful, and the choir's music always moves me deeply." "I very much like everything about this church - the sermons, the music, and the very friendly and welcoming people" "I like being part of Payson Park Church because of the Children's Choir and the Sunday school.
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Online worshipsource+ In-person Worship Directions to join us by Zoom for worship on Sundays at 10:30 am.
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Small groupssource& Daily Please click this button below to join our 10am Thursday Bible Study.
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