Infertility & Child Loss in sermons

Infertility & Child Loss comes up in 0.3% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Mennonite (2.2%), United Church of Christ (0.6%), United Methodist (0.5%) churches. It is preached more since 2025 (0.4% of sermons, up from 0.3%).

0.3% of sermons166 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about infertility, miscarriage, the loss of a child, empty arms, longing for a child, hannahs prayer. Part of Love, Family & Relationships. Least common in Presbyterian churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%1%2%3%4%5%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 0.0%Progressive 2017: 0.0%Progressive 2018: 0.3%Progressive 2019: 0.3%Progressive 2020: 0.2%Progressive 2021: 0.1%Progressive 2022: 0.3%Progressive 2023: 0.4%Progressive 2024: 0.6%Progressive 2025: 0.5%Progressive 2026: 0.2%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 0.0%Mainline 2019: 5.0%Mainline 2020: 0.6%Mainline 2021: 0.4%Mainline 2022: 0.2%Mainline 2023: 1.0%Mainline 2024: 0.9%Mainline 2025: 0.6%Mainline 2026: 0.4%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 0.0%Black church 2024: 0.9%Black church 2025: 1.1%Black church 2026: 0.1%Evangelical 2016: 0.8%Evangelical 2017: 0.7%Evangelical 2018: 0.4%Evangelical 2019: 0.8%Evangelical 2020: 0.0%Evangelical 2021: 0.1%Evangelical 2022: 0.1%Evangelical 2023: 0.5%Evangelical 2024: 0.2%Evangelical 2025: 0.1%Evangelical 2026: 0.5%All churches 2016: 0.3%All churches 2017: 0.3%All churches 2018: 0.3%All churches 2019: 0.8%All churches 2020: 0.2%All churches 2021: 0.2%All churches 2022: 0.3%All churches 2023: 0.5%All churches 2024: 0.6%All churches 2025: 0.5%All churches 2026: 0.4%

By denomination

Mennonite: 2.2% of 227 sermonsMennonite2.2%United Church of Christ: 0.6% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ0.6%United Methodist: 0.5% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist0.5%African Methodist Episcopal: 0.4% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal0.4%Jewish: 0.4% of 242 sermonsJewish0.4%Christian / non-denominational: 0.4% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational0.4%Unitarian Universalist: 0.3% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist0.3%Lutheran: 0.3% of 639 sermonsLutheran0.3%Baptist: 0.3% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist0.3%Episcopal: 0.0% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.0%Unity: 0.0% of 844 sermonsUnity0.0%Catholic: 0.0% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.0%Orthodox: 0.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.0%Presbyterian: 0.0% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.0%

All churches: 0.3%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

Parenting & Children ×3.3Grief & Lament ×2.5Marriage ×2.3Advent & Christmas ×2.2Faith & Civic Life ×2.0Fear & Anxiety ×1.9Faith & Doubt ×1.6Joy & Gratitude ×1.4

Churches that preach it most

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