Faith & Doubt in sermons

Faith & Doubt comes up in 11% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Mennonite (17%), United Church of Christ (17%), African Methodist Episcopal (13%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (15% of sermons, up from 9.8%).

11% of sermons5,637 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about faith, trust in god, believe, doubt, questioning, assurance, step of faith, little faith. Part of Scripture & Doctrine. Least common in Catholic churches (1.2%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%5%10%15%20%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 13%Progressive 2017: 12%Progressive 2018: 15%Progressive 2019: 13%Progressive 2020: 11%Progressive 2021: 6.7%Progressive 2022: 12%Progressive 2023: 14%Progressive 2024: 11%Progressive 2025: 13%Progressive 2026: 13%Mainline 2016: 18%Mainline 2018: 12%Mainline 2019: 2.5%Mainline 2020: 9.8%Mainline 2021: 3.8%Mainline 2022: 4.1%Mainline 2023: 12%Mainline 2024: 16%Mainline 2025: 15%Mainline 2026: 15%Black church 2022: 8.7%Black church 2023: 9.5%Black church 2024: 17%Black church 2025: 16%Black church 2026: 12%Evangelical 2016: 14%Evangelical 2017: 9.5%Evangelical 2018: 16%Evangelical 2019: 16%Evangelical 2020: 12%Evangelical 2021: 6.7%Evangelical 2022: 7.1%Evangelical 2023: 13%Evangelical 2024: 13%Evangelical 2025: 14%Evangelical 2026: 15%All churches 2016: 14%All churches 2017: 11%All churches 2018: 15%All churches 2019: 14%All churches 2020: 11%All churches 2021: 6.0%All churches 2022: 9.5%All churches 2023: 13%All churches 2024: 12%All churches 2025: 14%All churches 2026: 15%

By denomination

Mennonite: 17% of 227 sermonsMennonite17%United Church of Christ: 17% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ17%African Methodist Episcopal: 13% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal13%Presbyterian: 13% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian13%United Methodist: 12% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist12%Baptist: 12% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist12%Christian / non-denominational: 12% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational12%Unitarian Universalist: 11% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist11%Lutheran: 10% of 639 sermonsLutheran10%Unity: 6.6% of 844 sermonsUnity6.6%Jewish: 6.2% of 242 sermonsJewish6.2%Orthodox: 3.6% of 305 sermonsOrthodox3.6%Episcopal: 2.3% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal2.3%Catholic: 1.2% of 334 sermonsCatholic1.2%

All churches: 11%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Doubt & Deconstruction ×2.6The Persecuted Church ×2.5James ×2.4Hebrews ×2.1Angels & Spiritual Warfare ×2.0Reason & Free Inquiry ×1.8Attributes of God ×1.7Dating & Godly Relationships ×1.7

Churches that preach it most

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