Where we're headed

Representative Modes

Choose how the conversation meets you

A pastor preparing a sermon and a student working through doubt need different pacing and depth from the same conversation — one default mode can't serve both well. Before or during a conversation, you can choose how a Representative engages with you: General (the default), Pastor/Teacher, Academic, or Reevaluation, for someone actively re-examining their faith.

The Representative doesn't know anything different or say anything different in substance — it adjusts pacing, which examples it reaches for first, and how deep it goes into contested debate. Currently in active refinement, based on real conversation testing, before wider rollout.

More Traditions

Three new traditions are in development

• Latin Pastoral-Congregational ChristianityCarthage & Hippo Regius — Cyprian, and Augustine's own congregation
• DonatismA rival North African tradition shaped by martyr-memory
• Cappadocian Nicene Pastoral-Monastic TraditionBasil and the two Gregories, Cappadocia / Anatolia

Each fills in a major, distinct strand of the ancient church not yet represented — ordinary settled parish life, a persecuted rival tradition, and a monastic-intellectual tradition from Asia Minor. Each gets the same full build as the six traditions already live: its own representative voice, sourced vocabulary, and story material, built from its own letters, sermons, and sources.

Reformation Era

Seven more traditions, spanning the Reformation

A second wave of traditions is planned to follow the ancient set, spanning the Reformation — one of the most consequential periods of upheaval and renewal in the Church's history. The count is set; which specific traditions isn't chosen yet. That selection happens once the ancient-world set is complete.

Atlas Upgrade

Mapping the full twenty centuries, not just what's built

The Atlas currently covers the traditions Church in Conversation has built or plans to build. This extends it so a visitor can research sources and information across the whole span of Christian history, not just the traditions chosen for a full build. Not every tradition identified gets its own representative voice and conversation; the Atlas makes what's known about it available either way. Same interaction model already live — hover for a glimpse, click for depth — now extended across the full historical span.

Academic Review

Forming an advisory board for independent academic review

We're putting together an advisory board to facilitate independent academic review of each tradition and the Atlas itself. This is a top priority, and it needs real support to happen — both funding and volunteers. If you can help with either, we'd like to hear from you: info@churchinconversation.com.

User Access

Open to more people, including in more languages

Accessibility is one of our values. The real challenge: every conversation costs something to run, and that cost currently limits how many people can use the basic platform and the Atlas. We're working to build a reserve that covers that cost, so the basic experience can open up to more people — including translation into other languages.