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 28 of 57 weeks across the span (49%).
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 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, about the same than the site.
site avg 0.45
lowerpeer avghigher
Among ucc churches with enough scored sermons, it ranks #10 of 67 for emotional range.
On the words themselves, it reads as characteristically ucc.
Most-preached topics
Faith & Civic Life 25God the Father / Creator 19Baptism & Communion 11Work & Vocation 9Fear & Anxiety 9Parenting & Children 8Faith & Doubt 7Marriage 6
Recurring themes across the archive
Where this church’s sermons land on the site’s emergent topic map.
High School 4Rhode Island 3Food Table 2Republicans: Faith & Immigration 1United States 1Learning Disability 1York 1Trying Figure 1Teach Kids 1Climate Change Conference 1
Themes they appear in
The recurring topics across the whole archive where this church shows up most.
Faith & Civic LifeGod the Father / CreatorSin & Repentance
“But to give everyone a quick overview, the Wood River Junction criticality accident was the US nuclear industry's first and only fatality due to a nu…”
“And so I started to seek out other opportunities and decided that I wanted to go on the road with a musical organization called Up with People and se…”
Work & VocationDating & Godly RelationshipsMarriage
“I was dating my high school sweetheart and she went to Syracuse University and I moved out to New York and Syracuse and actually started my insurance…”
“Yeah it's funny because I'm nowhere near the Amherst country I'm I'm about two hours north of Philadelphia five hours east of Pittsburgh so I grew up…”
“because it happens to all of us where you find out that one of your very close friends used somebody else to purchase their house and they because yo…”
God the Father / CreatorImmigration & RefugePeace & Nonviolence
“The reality is that most communities in Rhode Island, with the exception of a couple places you can imagine, it's going to be Providence, Pawtucket,…”
“I'm your host max will it we got another great guest on today So if you could go ahead and introduce yourself, that would be great I'm Steve Schuster…”
“And it doesn't have to be, I mean, you know, I remember a a young man who was a file clerk in a hospital file room, the other patient records, but it…”
God the Father / CreatorParenting & ChildrenFaith & Civic Life
“that the United States would be the best place to have a family and so he made them decision to come to United States first living in New York for a…”
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The percentage is how many UCC churches’ websites state that value; the bar turns orange where this church’s website states it too.
of UCC sites
This church
LGBTQ+ affirming
57%
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Economic justice & mutual aid
35%
Peace & nonviolence
17%
Radical hospitality & accessibility
17%
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Anti-racism / racial justice
11%
Creation care / climate
9%
Open to people of all faiths
7%
Immigrant & refugee welcoming
7%
Children & youth
68%
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Online worship
49%
Small groups
36%
Child safety policy
11%
Financial & governance transparency
10%
Languages / interpretation
2%
Website & sermons online
This church: site, no sermons — like 27% 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 5 — ahead of 60% of UCC churches (the typical one states 4).
What their website says
Justice & social positions
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LGBTQ+ affirmingsourceWe are an Open aNd Affirming (ONA) church of the United Church of Christ which is why the Rainbow Flags fly proudly in our gardens!
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Radical hospitality & accessibilitysourceIn our church this is reflected in our commitment to the radical welcome of all to our church as we remind ourselves and our visitors each week in the opening words offered by the Deacon: No matter who you are or where you are on your journey of life and faith, you will find a warm welcome in our church.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Anti-racism / racial justice, Open to people of all faiths, Immigrant & refugee welcoming, Creation care / climate, Economic justice & mutual aid
Belonging & practical
✓
Children & youthsourceIt looks very different from more traditional Sunday School and youth group programs, but it is no less valuable.
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Not found on the pages we checked: Languages / interpretation, Online worship, Small groups
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