The 2026 project will begin with prior CTS participants who indicated that email follow-up is welcome. If you are currently or previously engaged in full-time ministry and would like to be considered for later invitations, participant voting, future question suggestions, or data/citation questions, use the form below.
Each Weekly Survey will include six parts:
- One CTS-administered topic: 12 related survey items from the CTS topic bank.
- Three participant-vote-determined questions: 3 additional live survey items chosen based on the previous week's participant vote. These are intentionally independent from the weekly CTS-administered topic.
- A participant-nominated item ballot: 7 AI-polished ballot items selected from the previous week's participant nominations, with AI-created seed items added only when fewer than 7 suitable participant nominations are available. Ballot items are selected for clarity, relevance, novelty, and likely participant tension.
- A text box: to suggest survey items to be voted on next week and possibly featured in the following week's survey.
- Last week's results summary and link: a brief summary and a link to the primary CTS website page containing the previous week's results and reports.
- A preview of upcoming topics: The topics for the next three weeks will be featured to allow for mental preparation.
Participant-nominated ballot rule: Participant suggestions are reviewed by CTS with AI assistance, polished for clarity, neutrality, credence-slider suitability, breadth, orthogonality to the weekly topic, novelty, likely participant tension, and pastoral or theological relevance, and reduced to a 7-item ballot. Active participants rank those 7 items; the top 3 ranked eligible items become live participant-vote-determined survey items in the following week's survey.
The regular send rhythm is a Monday heads-up email and a Thursday SurveyOL survey-link email.
Response rule: The 15 live survey items use credence sliders. The participant-nominated item ballot and suggestion text box are administrative inputs rather than survey-item responses.
Participation note: CTS weekly survey participation is intended for people who are currently or previously engaged in full-time ministry.
If the embedded form does not load, open the SurveyOL form in a new tab. The same full-time ministry participation note applies.
Contact information is used for CTS participation and follow-up only. See Privacy & Data Release for the current data handling policy.