Survey Report 3/11/2020 Urantia Book Fellowship Reader Survey Findings Prepared by David Schlundt March 11, 2020 Contact: [email protected] 1 | Page Survey Report 3/11/2020 Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................................... 2 List of Figures and Tables ....................................................................................... 5 Executive Summary................................................................................................ 8 Our History and Our Challenge ............................................................................ 10 A list of Questions: ............................................................................................... 11 Survey Methods ................................................................................................... 12 The Survey. .............................................................................................................................................. 12 Data Collection ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Basic Description of Survey Participants .............................................................. 13 Differences between American and International Participants ............................ 25 Differences between Older and Younger Participants ......................................... 30 Utilization of World Wide Web Resources ........................................................... 34 Web Resources ....................................................................................................................................... 35 Facebook Resources ............................................................................................................................... 40 Internet Forums ...................................................................................................................................... 45 Urantia Book Reader’s Needs .............................................................................. 48 Meeting more People ............................................................................................................................. 49 Open-ended responses to meeting more people ................................................................................... 51 Conferences. ....................................................................................................................................... 51 Local Strategies. .................................................................................................................................. 51 Study groups. ...................................................................................................................................... 52 Online. ................................................................................................................................................. 52 Events. ................................................................................................................................................. 54 Observations. ...................................................................................................................................... 55 Systems Changes. ................................................................................................................................ 56 Subtle. ................................................................................................................................................. 57 Use of Media. ...................................................................................................................................... 57 Interest in Face-to-face Urantia Book Study Groups .............................................................................. 58 How study groups enhance experience of reading the Urantia Book. ................................................... 60 Study group conduct. .......................................................................................................................... 60 2 | Page Survey Report 3/11/2020 Personal spiritual. ............................................................................................................................... 60 Personal intellectual. .......................................................................................................................... 60 Fellowship. .......................................................................................................................................... 61 Outreach. ............................................................................................................................................ 62 Observations. ...................................................................................................................................... 62 Social good. ......................................................................................................................................... 63 Other activities with Urantia Book readers. ........................................................................................... 65 Ideas for non-study group social activities ............................................................................................. 66 Specific Activities................................................................................................................................. 66 General Ideas ...................................................................................................................................... 67 Endeavors and Events ......................................................................................................................... 68 Online Study Groups ............................................................................................................................... 70 Organization of online study groups ....................................................................................................... 73 Leadership. .......................................................................................................................................... 74 Digital Platform. .................................................................................................................................. 74 Format. ................................................................................................................................................ 75 Planning............................................................................................................................................... 76 Timing. ................................................................................................................................................. 77 Observations. ...................................................................................................................................... 77 Internet Resources for Urantia Book Readers ........................................................................................ 79 Description of desired internet resources .............................................................................................. 80 Specific resource ideas. ....................................................................................................................... 81 Observations. ...................................................................................................................................... 82 Content. .............................................................................................................................................. 83 Interest in Printed Materials ................................................................................................................... 84 Ideas about printed materials ................................................................................................................. 85 Purpose. .............................................................................................................................................. 85 Publication types. ................................................................................................................................ 86 Content ideas ...................................................................................................................................... 87 Observations. ...................................................................................................................................... 90 Dissemination of the Urantia Book ......................................................................................................... 93 Ways to Disseminate the Urantia Book .................................................................................................. 94 Public Outreach. .................................................................................................................................. 94 3 | Page Survey Report 3/11/2020 Personal outreach. ............................................................................................................................ 100 Perspectives on dissemination ......................................................................................................... 102 Religious and political resistance to dissemination .............................................................................