Submission Criteria
By registering to use A Christian’s Conversation™ blog or submitting a contribution for consideration, you accept and agree to abide by all the terms and conditions of these Submission Criteria and Guidelines, the Terms of Website Use, and our Privacy Policy.
Audience
A Christian’s Conversation™ blog initiates and sustains biblical dialogue with readers throughout the world. Our readers have a voice. We encourage the expression of that voice here.
Submission Criteria
We are excited to engage with our readers in a biblical dialogue and appreciate your interest in joining the conversation as a guest contributor. Fortunately, we have more applicants than slots for guest contributors.
With that in mind, we will only accept a submission if it satisfies the following criteria:
1. The submission encourages our readers to engage in a Spirit-led discussion of biblical principles;
2. The submission assists our readers in applying biblical principles to their lives;
3. The submission is interesting to read and relevant to the understanding of the bible and its teachings; and
4. The submission is an original, unpublished article.
To increase the likelihood that we will accept your submission, consider the following suggestions:
1. Include real-life examples to demonstrate the biblical principles being described;
2. Use videos, photos, charts, screenshots, and other visually- or aurally-stimulating content;
and
3. Provide detailed instruction or specific recommendations that will facilitate our readers incorporating your advice into their lives or more fully understanding biblical principles.
General Guidelines
We prohibit the use of obscenity, vulgarity, unverified assertions of fact or motive, and blind quotes.
We prohibit the defamation of any person.
We prohibit the unauthorized copying of the works of others.
We prohibit the use of other people’s private information, including, but not limited to, photos, videos, names, addresses, and telephone numbers.
We do not accept posts with spelling or grammatical errors.
We require our guest contributors to reply to comments from our readers.
We encourage our commenters to use their real names, and normally, we do not post reader comments for use without verifying their identity. It is our desire to not publish pseudonymous quotations, thereby minimizing the risk of pejorative remarks and unverifiable assertions of fact or motive.
Editorial/Moderation Process
We will not edit unacceptable submissions to render them acceptable.
We review every submission for compliance with our acceptance criteria. Because we can receive a large number of submissions, it may take several days before your submission completes our acceptance process.
If we accept your submission for publication, we will notify you of our intent to publish your submission along with the scheduled time frame for publication. We cannot honor specific publication date requests.
We reserve the right to moderate fully A Christian’s Conversation™ blog. We strive to evaluate every comment for compliance with our standards before it is published. Our goal is to publish as most, if not all, comments. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that we will publish all comments or publish them quickly.
While we have the right to moderate A Christian’s Conversation™ blog, we are not obliged to oversee, monitor, or moderate A Christian’s Conversation™ blog. Moreover, we may stop moderating A Christian’s Conversation™ blog at any time.
We also reserve the right to remove or disable access to any comment that we deem potentially defamatory of any person, unlawful, or in violation of any third party rights.
Intellectual Property Rights
By submitting a contribution to A Christian’s Conversation™ blog, you agree that the contribution will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You further agree that we have the right to disclose your identity to any third party claiming that one or more of your submissions constitute a violation of their intellectual property rights, including the right of privacy.
By submitting a contribution to A Christian’s Conversation™ blog and as a full consideration for evaluating your submission, you agree to assign all of your interests in your submission to The Penuel Group, Inc. As such, The Penuel Group, Inc., its officers or representatives, and their
designees shall have the right to freely use, edit, alter, reproduce, publish, sublicense, re-assign, or distribute the material contained in your contribution.
This assignment will be free of any additional charge or consideration.
The Penuel Group, Inc., its officers or representatives, and their designees may exercise all copyright and publicity rights in the material contained in your contribution in all jurisdictions, to their full extent and for the full period for which any such rights exist in that material.
Moreover, by submitting a contribution, you represent and warrant that your contribution does not infringe any copyright or other intellectual property rights of others, and where applicable, you have obtained the written permission to reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works, or otherwise use the works or intellectual property rights of others in the preparation of your submission.
While The Penuel Group, Inc. shall own all right in your submission, we permit you to re- publish subsequently your article. Your subsequent publication must cite A Christian’s Conversation™ blog as the original source and provide a link to the publication on our website.
Breach of Our Criteria and Guidelines
In our sole discretion, we may take action to address any breach of our criteria and guidelines. The failure of The Penuel Group, Inc. to enforce any provision or resort to any remedy provided in this Document (i.e., “Submission Criteria and Guidelines”) or under the laws of any jurisdiction shall not affect The Penuel Group, Inc.’s, its officers and representatives, and their designees right to enforce any provision or resort to any remedy.
In addition to any remedy provided by law, we may take one or more of the following corrective actions in response to your failure to comply with our criteria and guidelines:
• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use A Christian’s
Conversation™ blog
• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posted Contribution
• Issue of a warning to you
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis resulting from the breach
• Further legal action against you
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required \
by law
You acknowledge our exclusion of any liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of our criteria and guidelines.
No Author Accounts
To maintain our editorial/moderation process as well as minimize the risk of publication of submissions contrary to the mission of The Penuel Group, Inc. or A Christian’s Conversation™ blog, we do not provide author accounts.
Items to Send with Article Submission
You should include a brief biography of no more than 100 words and a current photo (within the last two (2) years).