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Disability & Belonging in sermons

Disability & Belonging comes up in 1.2% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in United Methodist (3.0%), United Church of Christ (2.0%), Unity (1.8%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (1.4% of sermons, up from 1.1%).

1.2% of sermons586 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about disability, accessibility for all, every body belongs, the differently abled, a place at the table for all. Part of Justice, Mercy & the World. Least common in Presbyterian churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%2%4%6%8%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 1.5%Progressive 2017: 1.9%Progressive 2018: 1.3%Progressive 2019: 6.2%Progressive 2020: 1.9%Progressive 2021: 0.8%Progressive 2022: 1.2%Progressive 2023: 1.7%Progressive 2024: 2.4%Progressive 2025: 1.5%Progressive 2026: 1.4%Mainline 2016: 2.5%Mainline 2018: 1.5%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 1.7%Mainline 2021: 0.2%Mainline 2022: 0.2%Mainline 2023: 3.7%Mainline 2024: 2.0%Mainline 2025: 1.9%Mainline 2026: 2.7%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 0.0%Black church 2024: 0.0%Black church 2025: 0.0%Black church 2026: 0.4%Evangelical 2016: 0.0%Evangelical 2017: 0.7%Evangelical 2018: 0.8%Evangelical 2019: 0.0%Evangelical 2020: 0.4%Evangelical 2021: 0.1%Evangelical 2022: 0.0%Evangelical 2023: 0.8%Evangelical 2024: 0.8%Evangelical 2025: 1.2%Evangelical 2026: 0.7%All churches 2016: 1.1%All churches 2017: 1.2%All churches 2018: 1.1%All churches 2019: 3.2%All churches 2020: 1.6%All churches 2021: 0.5%All churches 2022: 0.8%All churches 2023: 1.7%All churches 2024: 1.8%All churches 2025: 1.4%All churches 2026: 1.4%

By denomination

United Methodist: 3.0% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist3.0%United Church of Christ: 2.0% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ2.0%Unity: 1.8% of 844 sermonsUnity1.8%Unitarian Universalist: 1.5% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist1.5%Mennonite: 1.3% of 227 sermonsMennonite1.3%Christian / non-denominational: 0.7% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational0.7%Jewish: 0.4% of 242 sermonsJewish0.4%Baptist: 0.3% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist0.3%Lutheran: 0.3% of 639 sermonsLutheran0.3%Catholic: 0.3% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.3%African Methodist Episcopal: 0.2% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal0.2%Episcopal: 0.0% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.0%Orthodox: 0.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.0%Presbyterian: 0.0% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.0%

All churches: 1.2%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Faith & Mental Health ×3.6Service & Spiritual Gifts ×2.5Immigration & Refuge ×2.4Gender & Sexuality / Inclusion ×2.2Racial Justice ×2.1Poverty & Compassion ×2.1Faith & Civic Life ×2.1Loneliness & Isolation ×2.1

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