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Faculty, Institutional Senior Leaders, Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Educational Assessment and Accreditation Liaison Officers, Researchers (including IR/IE), Other Institutional Administration, Admissions and Recruitment Tidy Studios Faculty, Institutional Senior Leaders, Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Educational Assessment and Accreditation Liaison Officers, Researchers (including IR/IE), Other Institutional Administration, Admissions and Recruitment Tidy Studios

Beyond Congregations: New Study Reveals the Value of Theological Education for Diverse Contexts

Drawing on interviews with 10 experts across fields including chaplaincy, education, nonprofits, entrepreneurship, and advocacy, the article identifies formation, religious literacy, critical thinking, interpretation, and the ability to navigate difference as distinctive strengths of theological education. It also highlights areas where graduates may be underprepared—including leadership, organizational fluency, adaptability, communication, financial literacy, and technology—and encourages theological schools to make transferable competencies more explicit in curricula, learning outcomes, institutional partnerships, and recruitment materials.

KEYWORDS: theological education; non-congregational vocations; vocational formation; spiritual formation; religious literacy; transferable skills; leadership; critical thinking; pluralism; communication; financial literacy; technology; curriculum; educational effectiveness; career preparation; chaplaincy; nonprofit leadership; entrepreneurship

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Researchers (including IR/IE), Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Spiritual Directors Tidy Studios Researchers (including IR/IE), Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Spiritual Directors Tidy Studios

Latent Profiles of Seminary Students' Perceptions of Sense of Community amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mixture modeling of 867 seminary students during COVID-19 identifies three sense-of-community subgroups (strongly connected, moderately connected, disaffected) with distinct well-being and spirituality profiles.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; flourishing; mixture modeling; relational spirituality; sense of community; well-being

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