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 33 of 179 weeks across the span (18%).
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 narrower
Its sermons travel somewhat narrower in feeling than a typical peer congregation, and about the same 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 deliverynoticeably lower
In the voice itself, energy runs noticeably lower than peers, noticeably lower than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among uu churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #145 of 243 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it reads as characteristically uu.
Most-preached topics
Advent & Christmas 19Friendship & Belonging 14Joy & Gratitude 13Parenting & Children 12Faith & Civic Life 12Immigration & Refuge 11Unitarian Universalist Identity 11Creation & Eden 10
Recurring themes across the archive
Where this church’s sermons land on the site’s emergent topic map.
High School 5Religious Education 3Lgbtq Plus Community 2Climate Change Conference 2Social Media 2Membership Class 2Chris 1Health Issues 1United States 1Volunteer Opportunities 1
Themes they appear in
The recurring topics across the whole archive where this church shows up most.
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionJoy & GratitudeParenting & Children
“Mint will spend some time talking about mental health issues, Eating Disorders, cutting anxiety, depression, that kind of stuff, because you start to…”
Faith & Civic LifeChurch Life & MembershipFaith & Doubt
“Enough was telling me a very similar thing about when he was on the membership committee and we were talking about, you know, designing the next jour…”
“Diane Elliott, who served as the director of religious education at, also was the first religious educator that I worked for as a volunteer at the Ar…”
“So I started going to Unitarian Universalist Church when I was 9 years and I believe that this was around the age I grew up in a town outside of Bost…”
“I'm hoping to do my internship actually at the high school so I might still be working in the same Community with the same lgbtq plus Alliance here i…”
Faith & Civic LifeAdvent & ChristmasParenting & Children
“Yeah, play Christmas music, slightly controversial, which is that I'm trying to get into American football, but watching it still feels like watching…”
“At the high school there was a swastika that was carved into a bathroom and people of there's been a bunch of hateful graffiti put up and and so a nu…”
“Lgbtq Plus- and I can actually say the other big draw for First Church was years ago I stumbled across an ice cream social celebrating the first anni…”
“If I wanted to study literature, the The Graduate level- and I'm coming to the United States- made sense, because here people much more open-minded a…”
“But I think there's also consolation to be found, for example, in you know, a sense of loneliness, of unmeaning in our society, in our very individua…”
“I was kind of curious and you kind of touched on it a little bit, Chris, for you know, your first year as our Minister took such a hard left hand tur…”
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