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Thank you for registering to join the clergy forum website.

Membership of the forum is for people in ordained and/or full time ministry, including spouses and those who are retired.
In order to maintain an appropriate level of privacy and safety for this site, the site administrator at Sheldon will check your "real world" credentials and then confirm your membership.  
Stars indicate mandatory fields, but it would be helpful if you could provide as much information as possible. The quickest way for us to confirm your membership is if you can provide a public website on which you (or your spouse) appear.  
Only you and supervised site moderators will be able to access your full details. 
The notes below each question tell you what is visible to other site members and what is only visible to moderators/administrators.  
You need to have cookies enabled for the CAPTCHA verification to work.

Account information
Spaces are allowed; punctuation is not allowed except for periods, hyphens, and underscores.
A valid e-mail address. All e-mails from the system will be sent to this address. The e-mail address is not made public and will only be used if you wish to receive a new password or wish to receive certain news or notifications by e-mail.
Personal information
Note that your USERNAME above will be used to identify your postings across the site. You should only use your real name as your username if you wish all your postings to be identified to you. Please enter your first name and surname in this field. If you wish to make some postings anonymously and some identifiable you may create up to a maxium of two profiles, but you will need a different email for each one. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
This field will be visible to other forum members and you should decide how identifiable you wish to be. eg: "parish priest" "parish priest in AnyDiocese" "Team Rector in AnyTown in AnyDiocese"
Enter here any additional information you wish to share with other users of the clergy forum.
if possible, please enter the address of a website which lists you 'in role'.  This is the quickest means by which we can authenticate you as a member. Browse to the page you want, copy the address from the browser bar, and paste here. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Please enter your job title. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Any further explanation you may want to add about your role to confirm your eligibility for forum membership. This may help to speed up your membership application. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Please enter your denomination. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Please enter the name of your Diocese, Area, Province, Region, etc. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Please enter the name of the church or other organisation to which you are affiliated. The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Mass contact settings
Allows you to opt-out of receiving mass e-mails from privileged users. Note that site administrators are able to include you in mass e-mails even if you choose not to enable this feature, and the ability to opt-out may be removed by the administrator at any time.
Terms of Use

Eligibility
Membership of this forum will be restricted to ordained clergy and ministers (active, retired, stipendary, self-supporting); people active in or retired from full time stipendary lay ministry; people in senior/policy-making positions at regional and national level within the denominations; and spouses and partners of the foregoing.

Authentication
Independent evidence will be sought to authenticate forum applicants. The quickest route will be if applicants can provide a hyperlink to a website which lists them "in role". Otherwise yearbooks or other listings will be checked which may take longer.

Moderation
The forum will be moderated by members of the Society of Mary and Martha Community, Staff and Volunteers.
Sheldon is not liable for the contents of external sites, or for comments, postings and uploaded documents (except our own). 
Our only guarantee is to moderate the forum to the best of our ability and resources.
If you wish to volunteer as a moderator, please use the contact form to get in touch.

Aliases
Forum members should decide for themselves how much information they reveal that makes it possible or likely that their identity can be inferred. Each member may register two aliases if you prefer to make some postings anonymously and some under your real name. To register a second alias, please make a second registration as a new user.

Protection of personal data
All personal data collected for the forum will be held by the Society of Mary and Martha solely for the purpose of the forum.
It will not be shared with third parties for any purpose.
The Society of Mary and Martha is registered under the Data Protection Act.
By signing up as a member of this forum you agree to let forum moderators see the personal information on your registration.
All moderators have signed a confidentiality agreement.

Protection of content
All postings must remain within site. Forum members agree not to copy and paste material from this site or breach the privacy of other members.

Unacceptable behaviours
Offensive language.
Personal attacks - critique of role behaviour is acceptable, personal abuse is not.
Forum members who can't play nicely will have their membership suspended.
Offensive postings and users can be reported on the Contact us form.

Forms
The forum will occasionally ask you to complete a simple arithmetic sum to prove you are a human being and not a web robot.

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor, to prevent automated spam submissions.
13 + 5 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.

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