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 32 of 43 weeks across the span (74%).
How this church compares
Against other christian 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 wider
Its sermons travel noticeably wider in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and noticeably wider 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 deliveryabout the same
In the voice itself, energy runs about the same than peers, somewhat higher than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among christian churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #17 of 166 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it reads as characteristically christian.
Where this church’s sermons land on the site’s emergent topic map.
Pain Suffering 2Food Table 2Climate Change Conference 2Street: Joseph & New 2Social Media 2United States 1Higher Power 1Feel Guilty 1Union 1Sit Table 1
Themes they appear in
The recurring topics across the whole archive where this church shows up most.
“And you're caring for beings who are someplace they don't want to be, probably having lives with a lot of difficulties they shouldn't have to be faci…”
“And of course, everybody knows what I'm talking about, because we've all lived this, we live it every day, right, you open up your inbox and you see…”
Addiction & RecoveryImmigration & RefugeCreation & Eden
“But anyway, they were talking about alcohol and drug addiction, and all of a sudden, in In my living room, it sounded like I was in a meeting and Bil…”
“And I think that if the tactic is to make someone feel guilty or ashamed or whatever it may be, it's not a practice that for one someone's going to f…”
“but the practice of not eating meat was really in many ways propelled by these teachings from the Buddha, also from the Jain, and at the same time we…”
“And again, as I said before, I became very sensitive to to pain and suffering after seeing so much pain and suffering with my friends, family and stu…”
“And it's about veganism and the black community and how like the systemic racism was infected, food, the food deserts and certain neighborhoods and n…”
“We just need to lean in to the best parts of that food system to improve the quality and affordability of the average diet for the average eater in t…”
Service & Spiritual GiftsCreation CareCreation & Eden
“Because I don't serve alcohol, it is a big space in Union Square locations, like 3500 square feet with the same size basement, it's a big space with…”
Fear & AnxietyParenting & ChildrenChurch Life & Membership
“I was experiencing anxiety and like this mountain of stress because I was in college and I wasn't doing well and stressed about the symptoms I was ha…”
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionImmigration & RefugeCreation Care
“You know, in our case, you know, our movement, you know, this is happening in at a time where everybody lives their lives online and social media has…”
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This church
Economic justice & mutual aid
12%
LGBTQ+ affirming
8%
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Radical hospitality & accessibility
3%
Anti-racism / racial justice
3%
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Peace & nonviolence
3%
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Creation care / climate
2%
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Children & youth
70%
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Small groups
53%
Online worship
47%
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Financial & governance transparency
10%
Languages / interpretation
8%
Child safety policy
6%
Website & sermons online
This church: video only — like 30% of Christian 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 58%.
Values stated, within Christian churches: how many of the 29 values we track each church’s website states. This one states 6 — ahead of 86% of Christian churches (the typical one states 3).
What their website says
Justice & social positions
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Anti-racism / racial justicesourceWe are an anti-racist, kid-loving , non-violent, LGBTQ+ affirming congregation.
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LGBTQ+ affirmingsourceWe are an LGBTQ+ affirming faith community supporting queer families within our meeting and our community.
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Creation care / climatesourceSustainability Quakers’ simplicity testimony has evolved over time from one discouraging worldly distractions from the life of the Spirit to one that encourages moderation in our daily lives that reduces our impact on our environment.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Open to people of all faiths, Immigrant & refugee welcoming, Radical hospitality & accessibility, Economic justice & mutual aid
Belonging & practical
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Children & youthsourceIn his later years as an elder, Bob enjoyed passing that wisdom on to young parents, asking them to let us benefit from their children's Ministry.
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Online worshipsource0 Your Custom Text Here Friends provide support for Conscientious Objection Click the image above for help from Friends Peace Teams or click here for guidance from our Pittsburgh Meeting Worship with Pittsburgh Friends Meeting Sundays at 10:30 AM Currently we are meeting in-person and through Zoom.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Languages / interpretation, Small groups
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