Thanksgiving & Harvest in sermons

Thanksgiving & Harvest comes up in 11% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Mennonite (14%), Unitarian Universalist (14%), African Methodist Episcopal (12%) churches. Its share has held steady since 2025 (11%).

11% of sermons5,190 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about thanksgiving, harvest, gratitude, give thanks, harvest the power, season of gratitude, thankful for, count our blessings. Part of Seasons & the Church Calendar. Least common in Orthodox churches (1.6%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%5%10%15%20%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 15%Progressive 2017: 8.7%Progressive 2018: 9.7%Progressive 2019: 12%Progressive 2020: 12%Progressive 2021: 11%Progressive 2022: 13%Progressive 2023: 15%Progressive 2024: 15%Progressive 2025: 18%Progressive 2026: 18%Mainline 2016: 2.5%Mainline 2018: 4.5%Mainline 2019: 5.0%Mainline 2020: 8.6%Mainline 2021: 2.9%Mainline 2022: 3.0%Mainline 2023: 8.6%Mainline 2024: 8.6%Mainline 2025: 8.1%Mainline 2026: 9.5%Black church 2022: 5.8%Black church 2023: 7.1%Black church 2024: 12%Black church 2025: 14%Black church 2026: 12%Evangelical 2016: 11%Evangelical 2017: 14%Evangelical 2018: 7.3%Evangelical 2019: 8.7%Evangelical 2020: 9.5%Evangelical 2021: 5.2%Evangelical 2022: 5.2%Evangelical 2023: 9.7%Evangelical 2024: 11%Evangelical 2025: 9.4%Evangelical 2026: 11%All churches 2016: 12%All churches 2017: 10%All churches 2018: 8.1%All churches 2019: 10%All churches 2020: 11%All churches 2021: 7.7%All churches 2022: 9.4%All churches 2023: 13%All churches 2024: 13%All churches 2025: 14%All churches 2026: 11%

By denomination

Mennonite: 14% of 227 sermonsMennonite14%Unitarian Universalist: 14% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist14%African Methodist Episcopal: 12% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal12%Unity: 12% of 844 sermonsUnity12%Baptist: 8.9% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist8.9%United Methodist: 8.9% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist8.9%Christian / non-denominational: 8.4% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational8.4%Presbyterian: 8.3% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian8.3%United Church of Christ: 8.2% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ8.2%Jewish: 6.6% of 242 sermonsJewish6.6%Lutheran: 5.2% of 639 sermonsLutheran5.2%Catholic: 3.6% of 334 sermonsCatholic3.6%Episcopal: 2.1% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal2.1%Orthodox: 1.6% of 305 sermonsOrthodox1.6%

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

Preached alongside

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

All Saints ×2.3Contemplative Prayer & Silence ×2.3Earth-Centered Spirituality ×2.2Indigenous Justice & Land ×2.2Interdependence & Nature ×1.9Stewardship & Giving ×1.9Joy & Gratitude ×1.9The Parable of the Sower ×1.7

Churches that preach it most

Listen to sermons on Divining

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