Content Guidelines

We are intending our imprint to align with general Christian tradition, not any particular denomination, so much leeway will be given. Still, some areas of current concern in our Western culture are non-negotiable as shown in the list below. Books do not have to be overtly Christian, but we will not publish books that even hint at a different stance in these areas:

The Bible is God's Word. It is perfect, and without error. It is not outdated.
God Created the World in 6 literal days. No Evolution of any kind will be pushed.
Traditional male-female marriage and families always encouraged. No other family arrangements or living styles pushed.
Boys are boys, and girls are girls, and can never be altered.
Sex is a gift from God, reserved exclusively for marriage.
Human life starts at conception. Abortion, family planning, and such things as IVF never pushed.

There are many other areas of concern that are not necessarily sinful or anti-God, but are dangerous and not in step with traditional Christianity and what our ancestors have believed. As such, we will be keeping a close eye for messaging that would encourage our children to follow the world in areas such as these:

To be single and not seek a spouse, or when married to not have children.
To date or marry a non-Christian, or even to seek a spouse on their own (without parent's help), or to purposely seek a spouse outside of their own ethnic heritage.
Once married, to purposely move away from family. To not care for elderly parents, even placing them in a home of some type.
Once married, to consider divorce or separation as a good option.
To mock, or dishonor parental, church or government authority.
To wear clothing, adorn their bodies, speak, or act in a way inappropriate to a Christian.
To waste time on digital entertainment like streaming services and in particular video games (beyond healthy boundaries).
To encourage purposefully having your children go to public or private non-Christian schooling.
To encourage girls to seek careers over motherhood. Especially military, or government.
To encourage boys to seek pleasure over family.
To push climate alarmism instead of dominion of and care for Creation.

Again, we are not saying the above list is a list of "sins" against God and we cannot publish a book with them in there. In particular cases, they might be sin, but much of this list, and other things like them, require situational wisdom and discernment. We simply list them here as examples of things that the current zeitgeist encourages, and we believe are usually not good, even if sometimes they might be necessary. For example, going against several of the above list, a story might involved a young mother whose husband has been unfaithful and is seeking to harm his wife and young child. The wife, the main protagonist, may need to divorce him, put her aging mother in a home, move away from family, send her young child to a public school, and enter the workforce to build a career and provide for her single-parent family. None of that would be healthy or good, but it might be necessary, and as long it is not being lifted up as desirable, then the readers should learn what is actually best. We want to be particularly careful to not teach the values of the world to impressionable children.

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