Work With Friends

We get to work on some amazing projects with some wonderful people. Here are just a few of the things we're working on. If you think we can help you with a research or Sacred Listening project let us know. We're always up for an evaluation, field research or building custom listening tools. If you want to know more about any of these projects or have your own project that needs support drop a line to Megan Bissell: Megan@futureoffaith.org.

Virtual to Sacramental: The Virtual to Sacramental Journey Project brings together Future of Faith and the Evangelization Lab, with support from the Porticus Institute, to answer a question Catholic leaders keep asking: How do people move from Catholic content online into parish life and the sacraments? The project replaces anecdotes with credible research rooted in global networks of digital missionaries and deep listening to real conversion stories. The impact moves quickly, from evidence leaders can trust to practical tools that help the Church recognize and collaborate with what already works in digital spaces.

Gordon College: Gordon College invited Future of Faith to lead a campus-wide exploration of spiritual formation, trust, and belonging across its student body, alumni, and faculty/staff community. Designed as a sacred listening study, the project centered on the lived experience of faith on campus—examining how faith begins, how it deepens over time, and how it carries forward beyond graduation. Through surveys and on-campus engagement, the study traced students’ spiritual journeys and identified where students experience sacred space across the campus. As part of the engagement, Future of Faith developed a Sacred Listening Tool to support Gordon College’s ongoing reflection on student spiritual formation.

Ministry Leadership Center: The Ministry Leadership Center partnered with Future of Faith to explore how young people from Generation Z and Generation Alpha understand the relationship between faith, service, and justice. Centered on sacred listening and participatory research methods, the study surfaced young people’s motivations, challenges, and lived experiences of service and mission. A key focus of the research examined when and why churches are experienced as credible spaces for youth engagement in justice and service, and where gaps in trust, relevance, or alignment limit that credibility, offering insight into how faith communities can more faithfully accompany young people in their service-oriented spiritual lives.

Association of Theological Schools: Association of Theological Schools is partnering with Future of Faith, in alignment with the Pathways Coordination Initiative and the Diversities Initiative, to support schools facing profound shifts in who their students are, how formation happens, and what sustainability now requires. The study centers careful listening and shared learning with schools across the ATS ecosystem to understand how they are responding to these pressures and what institutional structures will help them remain faithful and viable into the future.