Nonprofit organizations, Healthy Seminarians – Healthy Church, shared about cultivating well-being in theological institutions, emphasizing pastoral health and student support.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; ATS Student Data and Resources Consultation (2025); congregational health; ministerial formation; pastoral health; seminaries; slide deck; student well-being; theological education

Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology's dean shares about their approach to spiritual formation, including mission, community, and assessment practices.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; assessment of student development; ATS Student Data and Resources Consultation (2025); Black church; case study; ministry training; slide deck; spiritual formation; theological education

Presentation on how Saint Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology assesses spiritual, human, intellectual, and pastoral dimensions of formation.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; ATS Standards of Accreditation (2020); ATS Student Data and Resources Consultation (2025); clergy formation; MDiv outcomes; Program of Priestly Formation (6th); seminarian assessment; slide deck; spiritual formation

Heather Hartung, then-ATS Director of Accreditation, outlines how the principle-based ATS Standards of Accreditation center student learning and formation as quality theological education.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; theological education; ATS Student Data and Resources Consultation (2025); presentation (transcribed); ATS Standards of Accreditation (2020); Commission on Accrediting of ATS (COAATS); ATS Board of Commissioners; quality assurance; planning, evaluation, and educational assessment; slide deck

Deborah H. C. Gin, ATS Director of Research, traces a decade-long trajectory informing her vision for ATS Research, which bridges theological schools and rigorous data.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; qualitative research; ATS Student Data and Resources Consultation (2025); presentation (transcribed); ATS Research and Data; theological education as field of study; institutional reporting; industry trends; quantitative research; mixed-methods research; student formation

Stephen R. Graham, ATS Strategic Director of Context and Continuity and Director of Accreditation, examines ATS Standard 3—Student Learning and Formation.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; ATS Standards of Accreditation (2020); Colloquy article; dimensions of formation; student learning and formation; theological education

Synthetic review of psychology of religion and spirituality in Jewish contexts, using the Relational Spirituality Model (RSM) to organize prior research and outline future directions for empirical study.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; empirical research; God attachment; Judaism; psychology of religion; relational spirituality; spirituality

Multi-case exploration of spiritual formation at four seminaries (Fuller, Truett, Talbot, TEDS) addressing the lack of institutional definitions of "personal and spiritual formation" under ATS 2020 standards.

KEYWORDS: character/virtue; spiritual formation; theological education

Latent profile analysis of 580 emerging religious leaders identifies an "Integrated" profile with balanced dwelling and seeking, displaying the greatest flourishing among five relational spirituality subgroups.

KEYWORDS: flourishing; latent profile analysis; relational spirituality; well-being