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Storrs Friends Meeting

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34 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2026–2026 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/storrs-friends-meeting.html
Profile last refreshed Oct 20, 2026

Sermons over time

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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2026Week of Sep 14, 2026 · 8 known, not yet transcribedWeek of Sep 21, 2026 · 2 sermon(s) · 0.1 topics/min · 8 known, not yet transcribedWeek of Sep 28, 2026 · 10 sermon(s) · 0.2 topics/minWeek of Oct 5, 2026 · 10 sermon(s) · 0.1 topics/minWeek of Oct 12, 2026 · 10 sermon(s) · 0.1 topics/minWeek of Oct 19, 2026 · 2 sermon(s) · 0.1 topics/min
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 5 of 5 weeks across the span (100%).

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 rangesomewhat narrower
Its sermons travel somewhat narrower in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and somewhat narrower than the site overall.
site avg 0.12
narrowerpeer avgwider
Emotional intensityabout the same
The peaks run about the same 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 christian churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #130 of 166 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it leans toward the vocabulary of another tradition.

Most-preached topics

Faith & Civic Life 29Creation Care 25Marriage 21Fear & Anxiety 20Immigration & Refuge 16Parenting & Children 14Racial Justice 12Joseph 11

Recurring themes across the archive

Where this church’s sermons land on the site’s emergent topic map.

Social Media 4Trump 3Rights Movement 2Abraham Lincoln 2Bad News 1Pay Attention 1Clinical Trials 1Department 1San 1Climate Change Conference 1

Themes they appear in

The recurring topics across the whole archive where this church shows up most.

Social Media
Fear & Anxiety
4 sermons
Trump
Faith & Civic Life
3 sermons
Rights Movement
Racial Justice
2 sermons
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham & Isaac
2 sermons
Bad News
Evangelism & Mission
1 sermons
Show all 22 themes

Sermons that reach across topics

These touch the widest range of themes — often the richest listening.

Poet and Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander’s New Book Examines How Art Can Bridge Distances
appears in 7 different topics
The Bay Area’s Hotly Contested Congressional Races
appears in 4 different topics
How Social Media is Shaping How We Experience Our Lives IRL
appears in 4 different topics
Michael Lewis on the Civil Servants Who Tried to Stop DOGE
appears in 3 different topics
Bay Area Legends: W. Kamau Bell Asks ‘Who’s With Me?
appears in 2 different topics
Marion Nestle on the Powerful Forces Shaping What We Eat
appears in 2 different topics

Sermons included

Oct 19, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeBaptism & CommunionReason & Free Inquiry
Oct 19, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
DanielFear & AnxietyFaith & Civic Life
Oct 16, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareFear & AnxietyStewardship & Giving
Oct 16, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Parenting & ChildrenMarriageCreation & Eden
“And then when it came time to school, we worked with another neighbor and started a little homeschool for our kids and then we really had to send the…”
Oct 15, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyAbraham & IsaacFaith & Doubt
“Mary Todd Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1818, married Abraham Lincoln in 1842 and served as the first lady from 1861 until President Lincoln's assa…”
Oct 15, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeRacial JusticeMarriage
“A lot of what I was thinking about, and also reading your essay about this too, was I think when we were watching President Obama being inaugurated,…”
Oct 14, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
MarriageFaith & Civic LifeWorship & Praise
Oct 14, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Poverty & CompassionMarriageSuffering & Perseverance
“And I said, oh, all right, I'll take the bad news first and the bad news was the lawyers weren't gonna let me anywhere near the files.”
Show all 34 sermons
Oct 13, 2026 · families and relationships
Prison & Restorative JusticeSuffering & PerseveranceRacial Justice
Oct 13, 2026 · unitarian universalism
Faith & Civic LifeFriendship & BelongingEvangelism & Mission
Oct 12, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Fear & AnxietyAdvent & ChristmasFriendship & Belonging
Oct 12, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Dating & Godly RelationshipsBible & ExpositionFear & Anxiety
Oct 9, 2026 · school age stories
Parenting & ChildrenThanksgiving & HarvestPoverty & Compassion
Oct 9, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeCreation CareMarriage
“It reminds me, this is a weird analogy, but the way gay marriage happened, it's like once people started coming out of the closet and talking and you…”
Oct 8, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeService & Spiritual GiftsHope & Encouragement
Oct 8, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
JosephAdvent & ChristmasMarriage
Oct 7, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareHeaven & HellBible & Exposition
Oct 7, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Immigration & RefugeDanielBaptism & Communion
“And just to set the table guy in the, let's see, well, Hobbed defeated Hernandez in the August runoff 53-47, right?”
Oct 6, 2026 · school age stories
Spiritual GrowthGrief & LamentImmigration & Refuge
Oct 6, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
MarriageSpiritual Growth
Oct 5, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Immigration & RefugeFaith & Mental HealthPoverty & Compassion
Oct 5, 2026 · families and relationships
Immigration & RefugeMarriage
Oct 2, 2026 · families and relationships
Immigration & RefugeFaith & Civic LifeParenting & Children
Oct 2, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifePeace & NonviolenceFaith & Mental Health
Oct 1, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Friendship & BelongingMarriageCreation Care
“And I guess I just worry that if we're not seeing that kind of processing at all on social media, I worry that we aren't necessarily doing it like IR…”
Oct 1, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareJosephStewardship & Giving
Sep 30, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Creation CareFear & AnxietyFaith & Doubt
Sep 30, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionPoverty & CompassionCreation Care
“livable, it was just above the poverty line.”
Sep 29, 2026 · school age stories
Fear & AnxietyFaith & Mental HealthFaith & Civic Life
Sep 29, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeBible & Exposition
“Only Trump can do it.”
Sep 28, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeWork & VocationMarriage
Sep 28, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifePeace & NonviolenceThanksgiving & Harvest
Sep 25, 2026 · reason and sound thinking
Faith & Civic LifeEvangelism & MissionFaith & Doubt

How this website compares

What this church’s own website says, compared with other churches. See every church in the Church values report, or what this means for your church.

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The percentage is how many Christian churches’ websites state that value; the bar turns orange where this church’s website states it too.

of Christian sites
This church
Economic justice & mutual aid
12%
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LGBTQ+ affirming
8%
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Radical hospitality & accessibility
3%
Anti-racism / racial justice
3%
Creation care / climate
2%
Children & youth
70%
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Small groups
53%
Online worship
48%
Financial & governance transparency
10%
Languages / interpretation
8%
Child safety policy
6%
Website & sermons online
This church: site, no sermons — like 13% 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.
5 to 10: 4 churches10 to 15: 32 churches15 to 20: 3 churches20 to 25: 2 churches25 to 30: 24 churches30 to 35: 7 churches35 to 40: 28 churches40 to 45: 13 churches45 to 50: 20 churches50 to 55: 22 churches55 to 60: 28 churches60 to 65: 34 churches65 to 70: 72 churches70 to 75: 209 churches75 to 80: 88 churches80 to 85: 2317 churches85 to 90: 27 churches90 to 95: 51 churches95 to 100: 31 churches255075This church: 70
Among the 3,012 churches with a readable, rated website (scores of 0 and 100 left out), this one scores higher than about 13%.
Values stated, within Christian churches: how many of the 29 values we track each church’s website states. This one states 3 — behind 54% of Christian churches (the typical one states 3).
0 values: 159 churches1 values: 149 churches2 values: 145 churches3 values: 197 churches4 values: 167 churches5 values: 159 churches6 values: 100 churches7 values: 60 churches8 values: 31 churches9 values: 11 churches10 values: 11 churches11 values: 6 churches12 values: 1 churches051015this church: 3
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