What United Church of Christ churches preach about

These pages are built from sermons that United Church of Christ churches publish online and Divining transcribes. Each number is the share of sermons with at least one chapter on that theme.

Most-preached themes

What sets United Church of Christ preaching apart

Filled dot: United Church of Christ; open dot: all other churches. The multiple is how much more often United Church of Christ sermons take up the theme.

Rising and fading since 2025

Open dot: share of sermons through 2024 (881 sermons); filled: 2025–26 (1,871). Churches added to Divining recently can shift these, so read them as hints.

Top themes year by year

United Church of Christ churches on Divining

• First UCC Church Cambridge 178
• South Congregational Church of Barnstable UCC 98
• First Congregational UCC Church St. Louis 77
• Hamilton Park UCC 77
• Park Place Congregational UCC 62
• MCC United Church of Christ in the Valley 58
• Kirkwood United Church of Christ 53
• United Church of Northfield UCC 53
• Wilton Congregational Church, UCC 49
• Umstead Park United Church of Christ 48
• Stratford Street United Church 48
• First Congregational Church of Hopkinton UCC 47
• Zion's Stone Church of West Penn Township 46
• United Church of Paducah 43
• Church of the Three Crosses UCC/UMC 42
• Payson Park Church 41
• Yuma United Church of Christ 40
• Saint David's (Sherman's) UCC 40
• Imani United Church of Christ 40
• Three Steeples United 40
• St Paul 38
• Linfield UCC 36
• Higher Dimensions UCC/CC 36
• Cherokee Park United Church 35
• Saint John's Chapel UCC 35
• Ainsworth United 35
• The United Church of Chester 35
• First Congregational Church of Williamsburg UCC 35
• Federated UCC 35
• Hayden Congregational UCC 35
• Hungarian Evangelical & Reformed UCC 34
• Webster United Church of Christ 34
• Community Congregational Church of Clinton Heights UCC 34
• Lyme Congregational Church UCC 33
• Evangelical UCC 33
• Ripley United Church of Christ 33
• United Church of Ovid 33
• United Congregational Church of Westerly 33
• Whosoever Ministry UCC 31
• Saint Peter's UCC Fiat 31
• Bethany UCC 28
• First Congregational Church of West Brookfield 28
• Somesville Union Meeting House 11
• Lovell United Church of Christ 10

Other denominations

Share of transcribed sermons on Divining with at least one chapter on a theme, from Divining’s topic segmenter; 2016 to Nov 2026. Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Site map · Divining: a deeper search for meaning · build_seo_pages v0.0.1