Clergy and Body Mass Index — Getting Personal with BMI
The Clergy Into Action Study compared the body mass index of recently ordained clergy with that of Presbyterian clergy and American adults in general.
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Conflict Styles of New Clergy
We asked clergy questions from the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument to identify their main response to conflict with others: avoidance, accommodation, compromise, collaboration, or competition.
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“How Is It With Your Soul?” A Glimpse into the Spiritual Strengths and Weaknesses of Clergy
Recently ordained pastors and priests rated their own spiritual maturity, using qualities based on the cardinal virtues and the fruits of the spirit described in Galatians 5.
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Mobilizing and Motivating People for Ministry
The Clergy Into Action Study found that recently ordained clergy mostly rely on themselves to motivate and mobilize people for ministry, through personal example, conversations, and preaching.
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Getting To Know You: How Well Do Clergy Know the Gifts and Strengths of Others?
We asked recently ordained pastors and priests how much they know about the assets, strengths, capacities, and gifts of people within their congregations and out in the wider community.
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Feedback: How Do Clergy Know When Their Message Is Sticking?
The Clergy Into Action Study asked recently ordained ministers what strategies they use to get a clear sense of how people are responding to their communications and change efforts.
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TiM Programs May Help New Clergy Stay in Ministry
Transition into Ministry programs were created, in part, to address the problem of clergy attrition. How much impact do they have on the recently ordained?
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How Do Clergy Communicate Core Ideas?
Recently ordained clergy depend mainly on sermons, one-on-one conversations, meetings, and small gatherings to communicate their core ideas, the Clergy Into Action Study found.
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The Arts of Communication in Religious Leadership
Less than 40% of recently ordained clergy reported that seminary had prepared them “a lot” or "completely" for church communications work.
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Choosing to Answer a Call: Do Transition into Ministry Programs Affect How Clergy Decide?
We found that clergy focused on the same types of issues when describing their first impressions of a church, whether they participated in a Transition into Ministry program or not.
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