Practice. Be assessed. Grow.
Sandbox Seminary is a competency-based program for seminaries and churches. You rehearse hard ministry conversations with an AI parishioner and get feedback that quotes your own words. A professor confirms every score. A mentor walks with you between attempts.
Studying for ministry?
Start with a conversation. Tell us who you are and what you feel called to, and a person from the program will write back.
- 1Inquiry
- 2Conversation
- 3Self-assessment
- 4Cohort
Already in a cohort?
Students, mentors, assessors, deans and church leaders sign in with the address the program has on file.
Sign inOne loop, every week
Three parts, in this order, in every unit. Each one has a reason from the research.
Practice
Rehearse a hard conversation with an AI parishioner. Set the resistance Low, Medium or High.
Rate, then read
You rate your own work before any score appears. Then you read feedback that quotes your words with a stronger line beside each quote.
Confirmed by a person
The AI drafts. An assessor reads your work, judges it and confirms the score. Only confirmed scores count.
For seminaries. For churches.
The same structure in each one's own words. A seminary has students, mentors and assessors. A church has leaders groups and a church leader. Both run a weekly staff meeting on live numbers.
A dean runs the program
Live numbers, where AI and faculty agree on each criterion, a cohort heatmap, and where students struggle.
A church leader runs the week
The scoreboard, weekly formation practices, the Mission Field, intake and a one-week trial code.
How we use AI, plainly
AI drafts scores and feedback. A person confirms every score. We publish how that works on the trust page. We do not claim the AI matches faculty until real data shows it.