Joy & Gratitude in sermons

Sermons on this theme talk about joy, rejoice, gladness, joy of the lord, delight, celebrate, grateful, joyful. Part of Human Experience & Emotion. Least common in Episcopal churches (4.1%).

Year by year

By denomination

Preached alongside

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

Churches that preach it most

• Complete Service-First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco 56% of 280 sermons
• Wavelengths: A WUU Podcast 44% of 133 sermons
• Cbc St L | nursery 42% of 45 sermons
• St Paul 42% of 38 sermons
• Unitarian Church of Edmonton (UCE) 42% of 234 sermons
• Unity Unitarian 41% of 61 sermons
• UU Congregation at Shelter Rock Services 37% of 118 sermons
• Unitarian Universalist Church of Kent, Ohio 36% of 506 sermons
• Hucklow Summer School - Unitarian RE Week 35% of 34 sermons
• UU Church of Haverhill Podcast 34% of 150 sermons
• New Faith New Media 34% of 68 sermons
• UUABQ Voice 34% of 188 sermons

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