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Beloved Community in sermons

Beloved Community comes up in 2.3% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Mennonite (7.5%), Unitarian Universalist (4.4%), Jewish (2.5%) churches. It is preached less since 2025 (1.6% of sermons, down from 2.6%).

2.3% of sermons1,114 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about beloved community, common good, a better world, standing on the side of love, side with love, our shared humanity, build community. Part of Liberal-Religious / UU. Least common in Orthodox churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%2%4%6%8%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 4.4%Progressive 2017: 2.5%Progressive 2018: 2.3%Progressive 2019: 2.5%Progressive 2020: 3.4%Progressive 2021: 3.9%Progressive 2022: 4.0%Progressive 2023: 4.5%Progressive 2024: 5.1%Progressive 2025: 4.4%Progressive 2026: 7.5%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 0.0%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 2.3%Mainline 2021: 1.2%Mainline 2022: 1.0%Mainline 2023: 0.7%Mainline 2024: 1.1%Mainline 2025: 0.6%Mainline 2026: 0.9%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 0.0%Black church 2024: 0.0%Black church 2025: 0.6%Black church 2026: 0.1%Evangelical 2016: 1.7%Evangelical 2017: 0.7%Evangelical 2018: 1.2%Evangelical 2019: 0.4%Evangelical 2020: 0.9%Evangelical 2021: 0.2%Evangelical 2022: 0.2%Evangelical 2023: 0.3%Evangelical 2024: 0.5%Evangelical 2025: 1.0%Evangelical 2026: 0.5%All churches 2016: 3.0%All churches 2017: 1.5%All churches 2018: 1.6%All churches 2019: 1.5%All churches 2020: 2.8%All churches 2021: 2.2%All churches 2022: 2.7%All churches 2023: 3.2%All churches 2024: 3.1%All churches 2025: 2.6%All churches 2026: 1.3%

By denomination

Mennonite: 7.5% of 227 sermonsMennonite7.5%Unitarian Universalist: 4.4% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist4.4%Jewish: 2.5% of 242 sermonsJewish2.5%Unity: 1.8% of 844 sermonsUnity1.8%United Methodist: 1.1% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist1.1%United Church of Christ: 0.9% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ0.9%Presbyterian: 0.7% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.7%Christian / non-denominational: 0.6% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational0.6%Lutheran: 0.5% of 639 sermonsLutheran0.5%Baptist: 0.3% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist0.3%Episcopal: 0.3% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.3%African Methodist Episcopal: 0.2% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal0.2%Catholic: 0.0% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.0%Orthodox: 0.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.0%

All churches: 2.3%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

Themes that share a sermon with Beloved Community more often than chance (×2 = twice as often as in sermons overall).

Interdependence & Nature ×3.3Racial Justice ×2.9Unitarian Universalist Identity ×2.6Pluralism & Interfaith ×2.6Immigration & Refuge ×2.1Reason & Free Inquiry ×1.9Gender & Sexuality / Inclusion ×1.9Peace & Nonviolence ×1.8

Churches that preach it most

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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