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.
Complete available-data report. These aggregate results use all 36 complete Week 2 participant responses available from the SurveyOL export before the weekly survey project closed.
Survey launched: Tuesday evening, June 16, 2026. Manual reminder window opened: Saturday, June 28, 2026. The weekly survey project closed before any further weekly-report workflow could continue.
Update note: updated July 3, 2026 with the complete available Week 2 aggregate dataset. No further Tuesday refreshes, reminders, or new survey activity are planned.
Executive Summary
The Week 2 report now uses all 36 complete participant responses available before the weekly survey project closed. The clearest agreement concerns pastoral accountability for persistent pornography use, direct but careful leadership screening, structured pastoral care for harmed spouses, and teaching young people before pornography has already become a reported problem.
The most divided item asks whether churches should avoid presenting accountability software as a primary solution for habitual pornography use. Respondents also show meaningful spread on whether pornography is more damaging than most other hidden sins, how common pornography use among Christian women is in their ministry contexts, and whether churches are losing more ground than they are gaining.
Because the response count remains below the preferred threshold for subgroup claims, this complete available-data report should be read at the item level only. Respondent identities, respondent-level rows, and raw free-text suggestions are not published.
Production invitation universe used for the revived CTS cycle.
Complete-response count used for this available-data report.
Updated after the weekly survey project closed with all available aggregate participant data.
Raw response rows, identities, and free-text suggestions remain excluded.
Read This First
This report is based on all 36 available complete responses. It is useful for seeing item-level direction, but it should not be treated as a population estimate or used for subgroup comparisons.
Weekly Survey Project Closure
No additional refreshes, reminders, or new survey activity are planned. This page remains available as a complete aggregate archive of Week 2.
Reminder Window
The Week 2 manual reminder window had opened on Saturday, June 28, 2026, but no further reminder activity is planned after the weekly survey project closed.
Strongest Patterns
Leadership accountability is high.
The pastoral-disqualification item has a mean of 78.2, with 25 of 36 responses in the high-agreement band.
Direct but careful questions draw support.
The item on asking leadership candidates direct but pastorally careful questions about pornography use has a mean of 77.9.
Spouses and young people stand out.
Structured care for harmed spouses and proactive youth teaching both show high-band majorities and upper quartiles at 100.
Accountability software splits respondents.
The item on avoiding accountability software as a primary solution has the lowest mean and the most even spread across low, middle, and high bands.
All 15 Slider Items At A Glance
All 15 live items use the CTS 0-100 credence scale: 0 means strong disagreement, 50 means unsure or mixed, and 100 means strong agreement.
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Item-Level Detail
Each card below uses the same public aggregate summary file as the table. The small bar graph shows the observed 10-bin distribution on the 0-100 scale with light neighbor smoothing, so readers can see whether a mean is hiding polarization, consensus, or a broad middle.
Participant Ballot Results
Thirty-six participants ranked the Week 2 ballot. The top-ranked aggregate items were civil disobedience when laws violate clear biblical commands, women in church ministry roles, and IVF/assisted reproductive technologies. Baptism also received carryover-level support before the weekly survey project closed.
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Participant-Nominated Draft Items
Five text-box suggestions were reviewed for accidental identifiers. None contained names, email addresses, or direct contact details. Viable suggestions were polished into credence-slider-ready statements and are preserved here as aggregate process data rather than as preparation for another survey.
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Data note: The complete available public data file contains aggregate item summaries, distribution series, endpoint counts, ballot scores, and polished draft-item text only. It excludes names, email addresses, response identifiers, respondent-level rows, and raw free-text suggestions.