Our Bible App Submissions

Welcome to our submissions form! Thank you for your interest in submitting a devotional for Our Bible App.

BEFORE SUBMITTING:

• Please review and understand the Author Agreement and Publishing Policy found below.
• Download the app, and become familiar with the app by reading some of the devotionals that are already published. 
• Decide whether your submission is a Spiritual/Bible-Free, Bible-Lite, or Biblical Daily Devotional and submit your devotional using the appropriate link at the bottom of this page. (You can find out more information about each type of devotional by clicking on their link.)

Author Agreement

This Author Agreement is made between the undersigned Devotional Writer (Author) and Our Bible App, Inc (OBA) digital platform.

Terms and Conditions

In consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the all parties hereby agree as follows:

1. Publisher owns the Android and iPhone application, Our Bible App.
2. The Author agrees to these terms and conditions by submitting devotional content to OBA via its online submission platform. OBA has sole and exclusive discretion in deciding whether or not to publish devotional  content on OBA’s platforms, including, but not limited to, Our Bible App, website, and newsletter.
3. The Author agrees, as a contributing devotional writer, that all submissions of interest written and submitted to OBA may be published and/or distributed to all OBA platforms, including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or other related uses.
4. All Parties agree that there are no minimum or maximum number of devotional submissions that the Author must submit to OBA, and that the Author is free to refrain from submitting any devotional submissions to OBA. Similarly Our Bible App doesn’t commit to publishing any minimum number of the Author’s submissions.
5. Author’s services under this Agreement are as an independent contractor. The Parties agree that the Author is not an employee of Our Bible App and is not entitled to any employee benefits offered OBA to its employees. The Parties acknowledge and agree that the Author is free to publish on other Platforms and/or other media in accordance with Author’s sole and exclusive interest and desire, and that the Author’s work product is limited exclusively to those devotional submissions accepted by OBA for publication on its media platforms.
6. Author warrants that all submissions will be original works of authorship of the Author and will not infringe upon or violate any intellectual property right of any third party, and Author indemnifies OBA specifically against any damages arising out of a violation of this Paragraph 6.
7. This Agreement creates a confidential relationship between the Author and Our Bible App. Information concerning OBA and/or its agents, subcontractors, collaborating partners, as well as the Author’s business affairs, vendors, finances, properties, methods of operation, computer programs, employees, documentation, and other such information whether written, oral, or otherwise, is confidential in nature. Our Bible App and the Author, and all their agents or representatives will adhere fully to this confidentiality agreement.
8. Compensation licenses full rights of the submission to OBA for uses outlined in this agreement. The Author may not submit duplicates of any devotional submissions published by OBA on Our Bible App or other media platforms to other publications for three months after it is published on Our Bible App. After three months an Author may republish their own devotional submission originally published by OBA on Our Bible App, but the Author will include at the end of the submission the following attribution: “Originally published by OBA on Our Bible App, Inc.”
9. This Agreement will continue until terminated by either party by written notice.
10. This Agreement constitutes the complete and exclusive statement of the terms and conditions between the parties with regard to the matters set forth herein, and it supersedes all other agreements, proposals, and representations, oral or written, express or implied, with regard thereto.

By submitting your content to Submittable you agree to these terms. 

Publishing Policy

While we are a community that supports free speech, there are a few things that we are unable to publish. We want to create safer spaces for individuals all along the spiritual spectrum. Our readers are devout Christians and mystics . They identify as spiritual but not religious, while others are simply agnostic. Some are encountering spirituality for the first time or are re-engaging with a Christian tradition that has caused them much trauma in the past. Others are learned theologians, and still more identify as conservative Christians. We believe that the Christian blanket is large enough for all of us to fit under and that no one, when reaching for this resource, should feel as if they are an outsider.
 

1. NO HATE SPEECH:

We will not publish content that frames in a negative light LGBTQ people and women. We will not publish content that is anti-black, anti-brown, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic, or anti-Semitic.

We will not publish content that is ableist, sexist, or racist.

2. NO CONSPIRACY THEORIES:

Fact check your work.

We value the use of Biblical criticism and various systems of theology in our devotional content. We also value and embrace the use of science and informed viewpoints. To this end, we do not allow devotionals that have conspiracy theories or political opinions that cannot be validated with facts. 

3. DO NOT YUCK ANYONE’S YUM:

If you have to put down someone else’s faith in order to make buoyant your own, we will not be able to publish it. 

We cannot, in good conscience, publish language that infers/declares one denomination/tradition to be false or inferior. The truth does not need to be qualified.

4. STAY SEX POSITIVE (EVEN IF YOUR PIECE IS ABOUT CELIBACY):

Our Bible App celebrates the complexities of sex our Creator has given us. 

We will not publish content that promotes purity culture or rape culture.

We will not publish anything that presents a clear gender role bias.

5. USE PROFANITY WITH THOUGHTFULNESS AND DIGNITY:

We believe that profanity has a place even in spiritual thoughtfulness. Some messages cannot be conveyed without it. Please use any profanity with thoughtfulness and clear intent, otherwise it will be censored (s***).

We reserve the right to update and change these policies without notice.