Stack Exchange — christianity.stackexchange.com

The content of christianity.stackexchange.com (https://christianity.stackexchange.com/), a Stack Exchange question-and-answer site, as published in the Stack Exchange Data Dump of April 2024 on the Internet Archive. The posts table holds 193,850 rows: 56,950 posts (16,728 questions, 38,510 answers, 836 tag wiki excerpts, 836 tag wikis, 35 posts of type 6 and 5 posts of type 7) and 136,900 comments, written between 23 August 2011 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 39,692 user accounts, 366,165 votes, 68,302 badges awarded, 1,180 tags, 207,073 post revisions and 9,724 links between posts. Every answer keeps the question it answers and every comment the post it was written on, so the threads can be rebuilt. The Internet Archive item describes the dump as anonymised; the votes table names the voter in only 812 rows.

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 8,271 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

8.3K
Nodes
24.1K
Edges
3.52e-04
Density
59
Components
-0.2145
Assortativity
5.5%
Reciprocity
4.6K
Bridges
Most central nodes
2070.05042
40.03277
2340.02672
200.02612
214960.02503
10390.0243
840.02249
300.02213
38890.0208
17430.02068
Content metrics

193,850 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.476 ± 3.296
min -17max 128
x view countμ 3.8K ± 13.7K
min 3max 440.2K
x answer countμ 2.305 ± 1.826
min 0max 21
x comment countμ 2.406 ± 3.303
min 0max 61
x favorite count0.6% true
true 0.6%false 99.4%
9.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.3
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
godjesuschurchchristquestionanswerpeoplespiritmanlikebiblelordfathertimeholycatholicjohnsaidgoodlifeknowsonsinfaithbelievewordchristianthinkthingswaynewdaydonshalllawworldchristianspersondeathsaysheavenpauldifferentearthcomehumanlovebookscripturepoint
Topic clusters

Topic 0

question
answer
thank
edit
site
comment
ask
think

Topic 1

catholic
church
pope
priest
bishop
baptism
mass
communion

Topic 2

luther
denomination
question
answer
church
ask
protestant
christian

Topic 3

bible
translation
text
paul
write
book
kjv
scripture

Topic 4

jesus
father
god
son
john
spirit
come
matthew

Topic 5

god
universe
create
time
earth
science
exist
light

Topic 6

god
law
sin
jesus
christ
love
man
save

Topic 7

marriage
marry
wife
church
catholic
woman
husband
divorce

Topic 8

satan
god
evil
adam
devil
demon
eat
sin

Topic 9

god
israel
abraham
shall
moses
people
lord
nation

Topic 10

lds
mormon
church
smith
god
joseph
gift
book
Top hashtags
#1399
#2398
#3276
#1809149
#4124
#h124
#panel105
#v99
#x89
#581
#647
#page26
#s24
#722
#822
#921
#q21
#1220
#history20
#1019
Top emoji
𝔐4

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-christianity-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2024
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
211,301
Nodes
8,271
Edges
24,110 (directed)
Nodes are
user (Stack Exchange account)
Edges are
answer collaboration (A answered B's question)
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
Text corpus
question titles, post bodies, comment text, tag names
Languages
en
Collected
2011/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 119.4 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
Data package
Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (193,850 rows), users (39,692 rows), x_votes (366,165 rows), x_badges (68,302 rows), x_tags (1,180 rows), x_post_history (207,073 rows), x_post_links (9,724 rows).
Structure
Temporal (timestamped), Node attributes, Text, Threaded conversations

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{stackexchange_2024,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2024},
  month     = {apr},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/details/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2024). Stack Exchange — christianity.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-christianity.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — christianity.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-christianity.echo.directory/.

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