Unitarian Universalist Identity in sermons

Unitarian Universalist Identity comes up in 11% of the 49,328 transcribed sermons on Divining, most often in Unitarian Universalist (26%), Unity (4.9%), Orthodox (1.0%) churches. It is preached less since 2025 (5.5% of sermons, down from 14%).

11% of sermons5,615 sermons14 denominations

Sermons on this theme talk about unitarian universalist, this uu congregation, our uu faith, the uu tradition, the uua, a welcoming congregation, our free faith, covenant of this congregation. Part of Liberal-Religious / UU. Least common in Jewish churches (0.0%).

Year by year

ProgressiveMainlineBlack churchEvangelicalAll churches
0%10%20%30%40%201620182020202220242026Progressive 2016: 20%Progressive 2017: 21%Progressive 2018: 19%Progressive 2019: 16%Progressive 2020: 21%Progressive 2021: 21%Progressive 2022: 26%Progressive 2023: 24%Progressive 2024: 30%Progressive 2025: 27%Progressive 2026: 36%Mainline 2016: 0.0%Mainline 2018: 0.0%Mainline 2019: 0.0%Mainline 2020: 1.1%Mainline 2021: 0.1%Mainline 2022: 0.1%Mainline 2023: 0.0%Mainline 2024: 0.2%Mainline 2025: 0.0%Mainline 2026: 0.1%Black church 2022: 0.0%Black church 2023: 0.0%Black church 2024: 0.0%Black church 2025: 0.0%Black church 2026: 0.0%Evangelical 2016: 0.0%Evangelical 2017: 0.0%Evangelical 2018: 0.0%Evangelical 2019: 0.0%Evangelical 2020: 0.0%Evangelical 2021: 0.0%Evangelical 2022: 0.1%Evangelical 2023: 0.0%Evangelical 2024: 0.0%Evangelical 2025: 0.1%Evangelical 2026: 0.0%All churches 2016: 11%All churches 2017: 10%All churches 2018: 9.1%All churches 2019: 8.4%All churches 2020: 16%All churches 2021: 11%All churches 2022: 16%All churches 2023: 16%All churches 2024: 16%All churches 2025: 14%All churches 2026: 3.5%

By denomination

Unitarian Universalist: 26% of 21,206 sermonsUnitarian Universalist26%Unity: 4.9% of 844 sermonsUnity4.9%Orthodox: 1.0% of 305 sermonsOrthodox1.0%Mennonite: 0.9% of 227 sermonsMennonite0.9%United Church of Christ: 0.3% of 2,752 sermonsUnited Church of Christ0.3%United Methodist: 0.1% of 3,745 sermonsUnited Methodist0.1%Christian / non-denominational: 0.1% of 7,785 sermonsChristian / non-denominational0.1%Baptist: 0.0% of 6,663 sermonsBaptist0.0%Episcopal: 0.0% of 2,010 sermonsEpiscopal0.0%African Methodist Episcopal: 0.0% of 1,402 sermonsAfrican Methodist Episcopal0.0%Lutheran: 0.0% of 639 sermonsLutheran0.0%Catholic: 0.0% of 334 sermonsCatholic0.0%Presbyterian: 0.0% of 300 sermonsPresbyterian0.0%Jewish: 0.0% of 242 sermonsJewish0.0%

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

Preached alongside

Themes that share a sermon with Unitarian Universalist Identity more often than chance (×2 = twice as often as in sermons overall).

4th Principle: Free & Responsible Search ×4.41st Principle: Inherent Worth & Dignity ×3.4Pluralism & Interfaith ×3.3Interdependence & Nature ×3.22nd Principle: Justice & Equity ×3.17th Principle: Interdependent Web ×3.0Beloved Community ×2.6Racial Justice ×2.6

Churches that preach it most

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