Creation Care in sermons

Creation Care comes up in 14% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Unitarian Universalist (20%), Mennonite (17%), United Church of Christ (16%) churches. Its share has held steady since 2025 (15%).

14% of sermons6,983 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about creation care, climate, the earth, stewards of the earth, environmental, global warming, climate justice, the natural world. Part of Justice, Mercy & the World. Least common in Catholic churches (1.2%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%5%10%15%20%25%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 20%Progressive 2017: 19%Progressive 2018: 18%Progressive 2019: 21%Progressive 2020: 18%Progressive 2021: 13%Progressive 2022: 19%Progressive 2023: 22%Progressive 2024: 24%Progressive 2025: 21%Progressive 2026: 25%Mainline 2016: 5.0%Mainline 2018: 4.5%Mainline 2019: 7.5%Mainline 2020: 8.6%Mainline 2021: 3.1%Mainline 2022: 5.3%Mainline 2023: 12%Mainline 2024: 8.9%Mainline 2025: 10%Mainline 2026: 17%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 24%Black church 2024: 14%Black church 2025: 14%Black church 2026: 11%Evangelical 2016: 8.5%Evangelical 2017: 12%Evangelical 2018: 19%Evangelical 2019: 16%Evangelical 2020: 11%Evangelical 2021: 3.4%Evangelical 2022: 4.8%Evangelical 2023: 9.8%Evangelical 2024: 12%Evangelical 2025: 11%Evangelical 2026: 13%All churches 2016: 15%All churches 2017: 14%All churches 2018: 17%All churches 2019: 18%All churches 2020: 16%All churches 2021: 7.9%All churches 2022: 13%All churches 2023: 19%All churches 2024: 18%All churches 2025: 16%All churches 2026: 15%

By denomination

Unitarian Universalist: 20% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist20%Mennonite: 17% of 227 sermonsMennonite17%United Church of Christ: 16% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ16%United Methodist: 13% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist13%African Methodist Episcopal: 12% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal12%Christian / non-denominational: 11% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational11%Baptist: 9.0% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist9.0%Lutheran: 7.2% of 639 sermonsLutheran7.2%Presbyterian: 6.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian6.3%Unity: 6.0% of 844 sermonsUnity6.0%Jewish: 5.0% of 242 sermonsJewish5.0%Episcopal: 4.2% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal4.2%Orthodox: 2.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox2.0%Catholic: 1.2% of 334 sermonsCatholic1.2%

All churches: 14%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Earth-Centered Spirituality ×3.2Indigenous Justice & Land ×2.9Interdependence & Nature ×2.57th Principle: Interdependent Web ×2.4Revelation / End Vision ×2.0The Persecuted Church ×1.9Genesis ×1.9Noah & the Flood ×1.9

Churches that preach it most

Listen to sermons on Divining

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