I am trying to track my thinking over time in how to model the behaviour of churches in response to public opinion changes on a given issue. Part 1 and Part 2 show that this has been a longer process than I anticipated. I am still trying to use the two-dimensional framework that I used in Part 2, …

I have been trying to develop a model to explain how church leaders react to changing public opinion regarding some issue. I had initially developed this preliminary flowchart:

But I wanted to formalize it, despite that not being in my wheelhouse at all. So I started off by making a list of every …

I am currently working on trying to model the decision-making of church leaders when making decisions to change (or keep) church doctrine in response to changing public opinion. As part of that, I am trying to think of every significant factor that a church leader might take into mind (consciously …