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Uplift the Brethren

Member research

Analyses

Data studies built from the catalog: word trends, topics, and special studies across the brotherhood's public teaching.

Special study 2026-07-22

Same conclusion, different reasons

An interactive reason map showing how the same conclusion is defended through different moral, theological, and practical routes.

Special study 2026-07-22

Documented fault lines

Three evidence-grounded disagreement maps spanning alcohol, the Paluxy tracks, and the Ica stones.

Special study 2026-07-22

John 4:24: eight interpretive layers

An interactive close-reading that separates location, inwardness, revelation, divine enabling, emotion, and obligation.

Special study 2026-07-20

What the sermon corpus talks about

22,458 distinct claims drawn from sermon text, organized under 286 subjects: which subjects carry the most claims. Sample composition, honestly stated: sermon text is currently available for about 23,000 unique sermons — roughly 3.4% of the full catalog after duplicate discovery. Every figure here describes that analyzed subset, not the whole catalog.

Special study 2026-07-20

The most-preached scripture

1,126,139 verse quotations detected across the analyzed sermon text, ranked by chapter: where preaching actually dwells in the Bible. Sample composition, honestly stated: sermon text is currently available for about 23,000 unique sermons — roughly 3.4% of the full catalog after duplicate discovery. Every figure here describes that analyzed subset, not the whole catalog.

Special study 2026-07-22

Resurrection objection coverage

A twelve-question, sermon-scoped matrix distinguishing direct treatment, partial treatment, and no treatment.

Special study 2026-07-22

Popular topics in the indexed sermon catalog

An interactive 2018–2025 topic index with exact catalog counts, shares, comparison years, and a 2025 month view.

Topic trend 2026-07-02

Sermon topic emphasis over time

Nearly one million passages of sermon text from about 47,000 sermons, grouped into topics by meaning: which subjects rose, which faded, and how much of the pulpit each one held, year by year.

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Supporters read Topic Drift in full; researchers read Topic Drift and every other published analysis.

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