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Pluralism & Interfaith in sermons

Pluralism & Interfaith comes up in 2.2% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Unitarian Universalist (4.4%), Jewish (3.3%), Unity (1.3%) churches. It is preached less since 2025 (2.0% of sermons, down from 2.4%).

2.2% of sermons1,103 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about many paths, pluralism, interfaith, all religions, non-christian wisdom, world religions, many traditions, diversity of belief. Part of Liberal-Religious / UU. Least common in Orthodox churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%2%4%6%8%10%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 6.9%Progressive 2017: 3.7%Progressive 2018: 6.0%Progressive 2019: 2.8%Progressive 2020: 1.9%Progressive 2021: 1.9%Progressive 2022: 3.7%Progressive 2023: 5.5%Progressive 2024: 7.3%Progressive 2025: 7.1%Progressive 2026: 8.1%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 1.5%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 1.1%Mainline 2021: 0.3%Mainline 2022: 0.0%Mainline 2023: 1.5%Mainline 2024: 1.1%Mainline 2025: 1.7%Mainline 2026: 1.0%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 2.4%Black church 2024: 0.0%Black church 2025: 0.3%Black church 2026: 0.2%Evangelical 2016: 0.0%Evangelical 2017: 0.7%Evangelical 2018: 0.8%Evangelical 2019: 1.2%Evangelical 2020: 0.4%Evangelical 2021: 0.1%Evangelical 2022: 0.2%Evangelical 2023: 0.5%Evangelical 2024: 0.9%Evangelical 2025: 0.2%Evangelical 2026: 0.6%All churches 2016: 3.9%All churches 2017: 2.1%All churches 2018: 3.4%All churches 2019: 1.9%All churches 2020: 1.6%All churches 2021: 1.0%All churches 2022: 2.3%All churches 2023: 4.0%All churches 2024: 4.4%All churches 2025: 3.9%All churches 2026: 1.5%

By denomination

Unitarian Universalist: 4.4% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist4.4%Jewish: 3.3% of 242 sermonsJewish3.3%Unity: 1.3% of 844 sermonsUnity1.3%United Church of Christ: 1.2% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ1.2%United Methodist: 0.9% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist0.9%Christian / non-denominational: 0.6% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational0.6%Mennonite: 0.4% of 227 sermonsMennonite0.4%Baptist: 0.3% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist0.3%Presbyterian: 0.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.3%Lutheran: 0.3% of 639 sermonsLutheran0.3%Catholic: 0.3% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.3%African Methodist Episcopal: 0.3% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal0.3%Episcopal: 0.1% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.1%Orthodox: 0.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox0.0%

All churches: 2.2%. Denominations with 150+ tagged sermons.

Preached alongside

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

4th Principle: Free & Responsible Search ×4.0Interdependence & Nature ×3.6Unitarian Universalist Identity ×3.3Reason & Free Inquiry ×2.9Humanism ×2.8Beloved Community ×2.6Racial Justice ×2.4Peace & Nonviolence ×2.3

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