Divorce & Broken Relationships in sermons

Divorce & Broken Relationships comes up in 1.5% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in African Methodist Episcopal (2.7%), United Methodist (2.3%), United Church of Christ (2.2%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (2.0% of sermons, up from 1.3%).

1.5% of sermons754 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about divorce, a broken marriage, separation and reconciliation, restoration of a marriage, when a marriage fails. Part of Love, Family & Relationships. Least common in Orthodox churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%1%2%3%4%5%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 1.0%Progressive 2017: 1.2%Progressive 2018: 1.3%Progressive 2019: 2.2%Progressive 2020: 1.6%Progressive 2021: 0.9%Progressive 2022: 1.5%Progressive 2023: 2.1%Progressive 2024: 1.5%Progressive 2025: 1.5%Progressive 2026: 1.4%Mainline 2016: 2.5%Mainline 2018: 1.5%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 1.1%Mainline 2021: 0.5%Mainline 2022: 0.1%Mainline 2023: 2.5%Mainline 2024: 2.5%Mainline 2025: 1.9%Mainline 2026: 2.4%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 2.4%Black church 2024: 4.5%Black church 2025: 3.7%Black church 2026: 2.3%Evangelical 2016: 1.7%Evangelical 2017: 1.4%Evangelical 2018: 1.2%Evangelical 2019: 2.4%Evangelical 2020: 1.1%Evangelical 2021: 0.6%Evangelical 2022: 0.6%Evangelical 2023: 1.8%Evangelical 2024: 2.3%Evangelical 2025: 2.6%Evangelical 2026: 1.9%All churches 2016: 1.4%All churches 2017: 1.2%All churches 2018: 1.3%All churches 2019: 2.1%All churches 2020: 1.5%All churches 2021: 0.7%All churches 2022: 1.1%All churches 2023: 2.1%All churches 2024: 1.9%All churches 2025: 2.1%All churches 2026: 2.0%

By denomination

African Methodist Episcopal: 2.7% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal2.7%United Methodist: 2.3% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist2.3%United Church of Christ: 2.2% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ2.2%Christian / non-denominational: 2.0% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational2.0%Unitarian Universalist: 1.5% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist1.5%Mennonite: 1.3% of 227 sermonsMennonite1.3%Jewish: 1.2% of 242 sermonsJewish1.2%Baptist: 0.9% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist0.9%Lutheran: 0.6% of 639 sermonsLutheran0.6%Unity: 0.6% of 844 sermonsUnity0.6%Presbyterian: 0.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.3%Catholic: 0.3% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.3%Episcopal: 0.3% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.3%Orthodox: 0.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.0%

All churches: 1.5%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Dating & Godly Relationships ×3.8Marriage ×3.2Faith & Mental Health ×2.6Shame & Guilt ×2.3Addiction & Recovery ×2.1Parenting & Children ×2.0Loneliness & Isolation ×1.9Joseph ×1.8

Churches that preach it most

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