Professional and Religious Backgrounds

Religious Professions Represented

TCP participants have served in a wide variety of religious professions, including rabbi, imam, pastor, priest, nun, monk, chaplain, evangelist, worship leader, religious counselor, missionary, and theologian.

Participants Percentage (%) Currently Serving 264 25.6% Formerly Serving 787 74.4%

Religious Traditions Represented

Beyond its initial focus on Christian clergy, TCP quickly broadened to include a wide range of religious traditions, including over thirty different streams of Christianity.

Participants Percentage (%) Christianity 1027 97.1% Judaism 19 1.8% Buddhism 6 0.006% Hinduism 2 0.002% Islam 1 0.005% Scientology 1 0.001% Native American Tribal Beliefs 1 0.001%

Christian Sects

Baptist

Catholic

Charismatic

Christian Scientist

Church of Africa

Church of Canada

Church of Christ

Church of God

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Church of Scotland Church of the Brethran

Community of Christ, Mormon

Disciples of Christ

Eastern Orthodox

Episcopal/Anglican

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Lutheran

Mennonite

Methodist

Nazarene Nondenominational

Pentecostal

Presbyterian

Quaker

Reformed

Reformed Netherdutch

Salvation Army

Unitarian

United Church of Christ

Vineyard

Wesleyan

Updated May 2020