The purpose of this survey of seminary-trained, recently-ordained clergy is to ascertain their level of preparedness clergy to deal with the increasing theological diversity of congregations. If you were ordained in the last 3-5 years, please respond to the following questions.

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* 1. How adequately equipped were you to work effectively with theological diversity in your first congregation?

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* 2. What attributes/qualities (cognitive, behavioral, or attitudinal) made you more effective in dealing with theological diversity in your congregation?

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* 3. When/where in the preparation process for ordination did you acquire these helpful attributes or qualities?(check all that apply and describe your thoughts in the comment field)

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* 4. What attributes/qualities (cognitive, behavioral, or attitudinal) made you less effective in dealing with theological diversity in your congregation?

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* 5. When/where in the preparation process did you unlearn these unhelpful attributes/qualities? (check all that apply and describe your thoughts in the comment field)

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* 6. In your experience, what helpful attributes/qualities were missing that might have made you better able to deal with theological diversity your congregation.

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* 7. Based on your experience, what is the best context for clergy in formation in which to learn helpful? (Please describe your thoughts in the comment field)

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* 8. How prepared are you to prevent, plan for, constructively engage, and transform conflicts arising from theological and world-view differences?

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* 9. What attributes/qualities would it take for you to do that well?

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* 10. In what ways might pre-seminary, seminary, and post-seminary education be augmented to better enable new clergy to transform differences from division to gift?

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* 11. If you could create from scratch the ideal system for discernment, formation, and deployment for ordained ministry, in what way would it operate differently than the current system? In what ways would it look similar?

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