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Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Faculty, Institutional Senior Leaders, Researchers (including IR/IE), Alumni/Clergy, Other Institutional Administration Tidy Studios Formation Directors/Student Life Staff, Faculty, Institutional Senior Leaders, Researchers (including IR/IE), Alumni/Clergy, Other Institutional Administration Tidy Studios

The Ministry Label: Who Claims It, Who Doesn’t

Using data from the 2022–23 Mapping the Workforce Study, the article explores how ATS alumni describe their work several years after graduation, including how ministry identity, employer-required credentials, and work settings intersect. It highlights graduates whose vocations fall outside traditional congregational ministry and raises questions about how theological schools can better support vocational discernment and alumni formation.

KEYWORDS: alumni; career discernment; clergy; congregational ministry; credentials; employment; ministry identity; non-congregational ministry; theological education; theological formation; vocation; vocational discernment; workplace fulfillment; workplace support; Mapping the Workforce Study; Alumni Questionnaire

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Assessing Student Formation: A New Set of Core Assessment Tools

The definitive introduction to the Seminary Formation Assessment (SFA)—a 50-item suite of assessments measuring spiritual dwelling, seeking, struggle, and emotion regulation in seminarians.

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; assessment instrument; Colloquy article; emotion regulation; psychometrics; Relational Spirituality Model (RSM); Seminary Formation Assessment (SFA); seminary students; sense of community; spiritual dwelling; spiritual formation; spiritual seeking; theological education; training resources; virtues

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On the Priesthood

St John Chrysostom’s (347-407 CE) classic treatise on the dignity, responsibility, and spiritual demands of the Christian priesthood, originally written as a dialogue in six books

KEYWORDS: open access / free access; asceticism; book; early church clergy; Eastern Christianity; ecclesiastical office; moral authority; pastoral care; pastoral theology; Patristics; preaching; priesthood; spiritual formation

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