Weekly survey project closure
The 2026 weekly survey project is closing.
We are deeply sorry to announce that the 2026 Christian Thought Survey weekly survey project is closing. The email platform we used experienced a bug that caused some participants to receive multiple emails, effectively spamming them. That was never intended, and we deeply apologize for the inconvenience, frustration, and loss of trust this caused.
The response from participants made clear that continuing would not be responsible. We are disappointed that we cannot carry the weekly survey project forward, and we are grateful to everyone who participated, suggested items, read the reports, or otherwise helped up to this point.
Existing public reports and archives from the weekly survey project will remain available, but no further weekly surveys, invitations, reminders, participant requests, or newsletter requests are planned.
Christian Thought Survey collected responses from people who are currently or previously engaged in full-time ministry. The project was designed for public reporting, but participant contact information and identifying details should not be exposed in public files.
Contact information
- Email addresses were used for survey invitations, reminders, follow-up questions, and opt-out handling while the weekly survey project was active.
- Email addresses, names, and direct contact details are not included in public results files.
- No further survey invitations, reminders, newsletter requests, or participant-update messages are planned.
- Existing opt-outs and suppression records remain relevant for any cleanup or archival handling.
Survey responses
- Posted survey items used 0-100 credence sliders.
- Existing weekly reports may summarize aggregate results, distribution shapes, and subgroup comparisons when sample size permits.
- Subgroups may be combined, suppressed, or withheld when reporting them could make participants identifiable.
Participant-nominated items
- Free-text suggestions are treated as administrative inputs, not as public survey responses.
- Suggestions may have been corrected, combined, clarified, shortened, or withheld before appearing on a participant-nominated item ballot.
- CTS used AI assistance to polish nominations for clarity, neutrality, credence-slider suitability, breadth, orthogonality to the weekly topic, novelty, likely participant tension, and pastoral or theological relevance.
- CTS will not intentionally publish a suggestion in a way that identifies the participant who submitted it.
Data releases
- Public data releases will remove direct email identifiers before publication.
- Prepared datasets may group participant attributes such as role, tradition, or ministry experience to reduce identification risk.
- Raw exports should be reviewed before release for accidental identifiers in free-text fields or small subgroups.
The practical rule remains simple: preserve useful public reporting where it already exists, protect participants carefully, and do not publish raw contact information.