Faith Matures.
So Should Our Tools
A research-driven pathway for understanding and guiding the growth of faith across life’s stages.
Faith Matures.
So Should Our Tools
A research-driven pathway for understanding and guiding the growth of faith across life’s stages.
Faith Matures.
So Should Our Tools
A research-driven pathway for understanding and guiding the growth of faith across life’s stages.
Faith Matures.
So Should Our Tools
A research-driven pathway for understanding and guiding the growth of faith across life’s stages.
Faith isn’t just about belief—it’s about how people make sense of life, what they value most, and where they find purpose. Faith development research explores how these meaning-making frameworks change and grow over time, from a child’s early stories, to the shared traditions of communities, to deeper personal reflection and beyond. Today, using cutting-edge assessment tools, we can track this process like never before, delivering valuable insights and resources for navigating life’s big questions.
Faith isn’t just about belief—it’s about how people make sense of life, what they value most, and where they find purpose. Faith development research explores how these meaning-making frameworks change and grow over time, from a child’s early stories, to the shared traditions of communities, to deeper personal reflection and beyond. Today, using cutting-edge assessment tools, we can track this process like never before, delivering valuable insights and resources for navigating life’s big questions.
Faith isn’t just about belief—it’s about how people make sense of life, what they value most, and where they find purpose. Faith development research explores how these meaning-making frameworks change and grow over time, from a child’s early stories, to the shared traditions of communities, to deeper personal reflection and beyond. Today, using cutting-edge assessment tools, we can track this process like never before, delivering valuable insights and resources for navigating life’s big questions.
Problem
Meaning Can Erode When Faith Can’t Grow
Without a developmental lens, spiritual formation can fracture or falter
Problem
Meaning Can Erode When Faith Can’t Grow
Without a developmental lens, spiritual formation can fracture or falter
Problem
Meaning Can Erode When Faith Can’t Grow
Without a developmental lens, spiritual formation can fracture or falter
Problem
Meaning Can Erode When Faith Can’t Grow
Without a developmental lens, spiritual formation can fracture or falter
Faith is dynamic—but most religious or spiritual education treat it as fixed. The lack of a robust framework for growth can lead to disillusionment, spiritual crises, or entrenchment in limiting beliefs. At FDP, we diagnose this gap and offer a rigorous developmental scaffold that enhances meaning, respects complexity and fosters faith maturation.
Faith is dynamic—but most religious or spiritual education treat it as fixed. The lack of a robust framework for growth can lead to disillusionment, spiritual crises, or entrenchment in limiting beliefs. At FDP, we diagnose this gap and offer a rigorous developmental scaffold that enhances meaning, respects complexity and fosters faith maturation.
Solution
A Developmental
Protocol
for Growing Faith
Solution
A Developmental
Protocol
for Growing Faith
Tools
assessments
curricular guidance
Solution
A Developmental
Protocol
for Growing Faith
Solution
A Developmental
Protocol
for Growing Faith
Tools
assessments
curricular guidance
By integrating Fowler’s stages with the world’s most advanced hierarchical complexity scoring, FDP maps the journey from mythic to reflective to integrative faith. Our open-source pathway includes tools, assessments, and curricular guidance—available to anyone ready to steward healthy, lifelong faith development.
By integrating Fowler’s stages with the world’s most advanced hierarchical complexity scoring, FDP maps the journey from mythic to reflective to integrative faith. Our open-source pathway includes tools, assessments, and curricular guidance—available to anyone ready to steward healthy, lifelong faith development.
Who we are
Building the World’s First Empirical-Faith Development Institute
FDP is the incubator for a future Faith Development Institute—an open hub for research, pedagogy, and global dialogue. Anchored in developmental psychology and shaped by diverse faith traditions, our team of scholars and practitioners collaborate to expand this model across disciplines and cultures.
Who we are
Building the World’s First Empirical-Faith Development Institute
FDP is the incubator for a future Faith Development Institute—an open hub for research, pedagogy, and global dialogue. Anchored in developmental psychology and shaped by diverse faith traditions, our team of scholars and practitioners collaborate to expand this model across disciplines and cultures.
Research
We advance a science of faith grounded in developmental psychology and real-world experience. Our research blends empirical rigor with spiritual insight.
Research
We advance a science of faith grounded in developmental psychology and real-world experience. Our research blends empirical rigor with spiritual insight.
Research
We advance a science of faith grounded in developmental psychology and real-world experience. Our research blends empirical rigor with spiritual insight.
Pedagogy
We design tools and frameworks that help educators guide faith at every stage. Our focus is practical, adaptive, and growth-oriented.
Pedagogy
We design tools and frameworks that help educators guide faith at every stage. Our focus is practical, adaptive, and growth-oriented.
Pedagogy
We design tools and frameworks that help educators guide faith at every stage. Our focus is practical, adaptive, and growth-oriented.
Global Dialogue
We bring together voices from across traditions to explore shared patterns of spiritual growth. Diversity and universality go hand in hand.
Global Dialogue
We bring together voices from across traditions to explore shared patterns of spiritual growth. Diversity and universality go hand in hand.
Global Dialogue
We bring together voices from across traditions to explore shared patterns of spiritual growth. Diversity and universality go hand in hand.
Open Hub
Everything we build is open-access and evolving. The FDP is a shared resource for anyone committed to meaningful, stage-aware faith development.
Open Hub
Everything we build is open-access and evolving. The FDP is a shared resource for anyone committed to meaningful, stage-aware faith development.
Open Hub
Everything we build is open-access and evolving. The FDP is a shared resource for anyone committed to meaningful, stage-aware faith development.
Join us in reimagining spiritual formation
Join us in reimagining spiritual formation
Let’s Build the Future of Faith Development
Let’s Build the Future of Faith Development
Join us in reimagining spiritual formation
Whether you’re a spiritual director, faith leader, curriculum designer, researcher, or innovator, your insight matters. Get in touch to:
Access the open-access protocol and assessment tools
Join a pilot program or design collaborative
Collaborate on curriculum development or field research
Why it matters
From Spiritual Crisis to Compassionate Wisdom
From Spiritual Crisis to Compassionate Wisdom
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for Your Emotional Wellbeing
Why it matters
Faith is in crisis because it has been reduced to conflicting worldviews. But when we support the natural arc of meaning-making, people move beyond polarized belief and toward self-understanding, compassion and existential resilience. The FDP equips leaders and learners to respond to today’s crises of meaning with psychological insight, spiritual depth, and inclusive universality.