Our approach
How the matter gets searched
Ask well
A survey is a guest in someone’s conscience, and it should behave like one. Ours are short, written in plain language, and anonymous by default. Questions arrive one at a time, at a humane pace — written by people, delivered simply, with no machinery standing between you and what you meant to say.
Analyze honestly
Honesty here is mechanical, not aspirational. These are the commitments:
Among respondents, always
Findings describe the people who answered — never “the community believes.” A volunteer sample is a lamp, not a census.
Every number keeps its denominator
When a question was added late or answered by few, that context travels with the figure. No count stands without its base.
Small groups stay protected
Where few enough people share an answer that they might be recognized, the number is withheld. In close communities, this is not caution — it is care.
Outside research within honest limits
When we cite external studies, we say only what the comparison can bear — and record what it cannot.
A person approves publication
Nothing is published by a process. A steward reviews the evidence and takes responsibility for releasing it — or refusing to.
Reflect back
Findings return to the people who shared them. The goal is not a scorecard for leadership — it is a community seeing itself: the spread of its convictions, the tensions its members hold together, and the care behind positions that once looked like opposition.
When studies are published here, seeing the full results will ask one small thing of you: that you took part, or are willing to.
Why this way
The name is Proverbs 25:2 — the honour of kings is to search out a matter. The purpose is Romans 14:19 — the things which make for peace, and the things by which we build one another up. Searching honestly is how the first serves the second: conversations get less complicated, and people find they cared for each other all along.