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 125 weeks across the span (28%).
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 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
Among uu churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #49 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.
United States 3George 2African 2Climate Action Team 2Climate Change Conference 2Religious Education Program 2Humanist Association 2Anxiety Depression 2Washington 2Supreme Court 1
Themes they appear in
The recurring topics across the whole archive where this church shows up most.
“And then our views of transcendent religions, that God isn't here when I look at you, there's not take Spirit from Working Class People, from other s…”
Feb 17, 2026 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeJesus: Life & TeachingsImmigration & Refuge
“It's the recognition that we can't solve the immigration crisis or the economy or change the minds of the current Administration, but we can show up…”
“And we who believe in humanism, in reese and dietrich's dream of a religion organized around worshiping not something outside ourselves but our human…”
Apr 7, 2025 · hope and light, the beloved community
Joy & GratitudeLoneliness & IsolationGrief & Lament
“Imagine that Joy depends on always being happy, and that's not our true lived experience, or maybe because we feel that we are for not focusing on th…”
Friendship & BelongingFear & AnxietyBeloved Community
“It sucks to be in the middle of the river and it's better with people around us if not all of us have had experiences that have led us to be leery of…”
“Here's another example: Trump has been talking about those who poisoned the blood of Lazada, and radical spoke of this as a progression in his predic…”
Creation CareReason & Free InquiryFaith & Civic Life
“Oil and gas drilling hit record levels while at the same time they did a lot to protect other areas, and Trump's second term will inevitably slow the…”
“As we prepare for the further erosion of laws that protect and defend African-American civil rights, I can think of No Greater reason to embrace Whit…”
“If we have any hope to remain resilient in the face of all the stressors in our world today, and if we have any hope to fight the growing anxiety and…”
Friendship & BelongingJoy & GratitudeChurch Life & Membership
“We can use literature to play play Kate off of Liberation and we can collect a bunch of degrees to camouflage are discrimination, and we can apply ed…”
“Ego and desire binds us out of our cocoon into gathering together to create Beauty, to create movement, to create Justice, to overcome addiction and…”
“No one need look no further than the Chalice right here on the stage to see that this in action in our own congregational home, according to the Unit…”
“Thank you for that question, and I I think that phrase, the fierce urgency of now, feels especially resonant to us in this moment when everything see…”
“Well, our theme for the month of December is Mystery, David said cliche enough theme if you're talking about the mystery of Santa Claus or Christmas…”
“After sighting our humanist, James Baldwin, Brooks writes: I made the corrosive flow of dehumanization was the very image of a defiant play who was t…”
“In the summer of 1999, I got to visit Palestinian refugee camps and see the conditions when we were in Beirut, when the Hezbollah, kind of like leban…”
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LGBTQ+ affirming
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Creation care / climate
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Anti-racism / racial justice
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Economic justice & mutual aid
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Open to people of all faiths
34%
Radical hospitality & accessibility
31%
Immigrant & refugee welcoming
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Reproductive justice
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Indigenous relations / land acknowledgment
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Peace & nonviolence
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Prison ministry & restorative justice
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Disability justice
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Mental health
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Children & youth
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Online worship
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Small groups
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Financial & governance transparency
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Child safety policy
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Website & sermons online
This church: audio + video — like 8% of UU churches.
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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 is at the top of the scale.
Values stated, within UU churches: how many of the 29 values we track each church’s website states. This one states 13 — ahead of 93% of UU churches (the typical one states 7).
What their website says
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Anti-racism / racial justicesourceWe are an LGBTQ+ affirming, anti-racist, pluralistic congregation that is always striving to expand our practices of radical inclusivity.
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LGBTQ+ affirmingsourceWe are an LGBTQ+ affirming, anti-racist, pluralistic congregation that is always striving to expand our practices of radical inclusivity.
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Immigrant & refugee welcomingsourceSupport Team About Our mission is to assist in welcoming and supporting refugees as they adjust to life in the Twin Cities.
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Creation care / climatesource15:31:43 +0000 https://firstunitarian.org/?p=36157 A cofounder of the Minnesota Green Party, Greta Gaard is author of Critical Ecofeminism, a book about contemporary issues from animal and plant studies to sustainability and climate justice.
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Economic justice & mutual aidsourceSend email About We are part of Align Minneapolis, a collaboration of downtown congregations that addresses homelessness in our city.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Open to people of all faiths, Radical hospitality & accessibility
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Children & youthsourceFirst Unitarian Society of Minneapolis is proud to offer Our Whole Lives (OWL) – a comprehensive lifespan sexuality education curriculum.
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Languages / interpretationsource9:45am Christine and Tania aim to offer a space of belonging for kids and their caregiver with music and stories en español.
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Online worshipsourceAll FUS members are welcome to attend Board of Trustees meetings at FUS or via Zoom.
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Small groupssourceGroups Affinity Groups Pathway to membership If you’re new to our community, or if you’ve been around for a while, and are ready to learn more about our Pathway to Membership, you’re in the right place.
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