Editorial Policies

Manuscripts undergo single‑anonymous peer review: editors and reviewers see author identities, but reviewer identities remain confidential. Each submission is evaluated for originality, methodological soundness, clarity, and alignment with biblical truth. We aim to communicate an initial decision—accept, accept with revisions, or reject—within ten working days.  

Submitting authors affirm that their work is original, properly cited, free of plagiarism, and faithful to Scripture. All funding sources, competing interests, and ethical approvals must be disclosed. Authors agree to our open‑access policy and license their work under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.  

Authors should deposit underlying datasets, code, or multimedia in trusted repositories such as Zenodo, OSF, or institutional archives. Each manuscript must include a Data Availability Statement that cites persistent links to these resources, promoting transparency and reproducibility. . 

All contributors must disclose financial, institutional, or personal relationships that might influence evaluation. Transparent conflict statements nurture reader trust, protect SEO credibility, uphold impartial editorial decisions, and demonstrate humble commitment to scriptural ethics and professional standards across interdisciplinary, faith-integrated research domains. 

Open Christian Press provides immediate CC BY 4.0 open-access distribution, enabling free global reading, sharing, adaptation, and citation. This humble, inclusive model meets funder mandates, boosts SEO visibility, and removes financial barriers hindering equitable participation in rigorous, Bible-anchored academic discourse worldwide. 

Our continuous publication workflow assigns a DOI and releases the formatted article online within twenty-four hours post-acceptance, expediting SEO discovery, citation accrual, altmetric tracking, and timely dissemination of faith-infused knowledge to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers globally across diverse sectors. 

When honest errors emerge, we publish linked corrections promptly. Proven ethical violations trigger transparent retractions; pending investigations may warrant expressions of concern. These humble practices protect scholarly integrity, SEO accuracy, and reader confidence in Open Christian Press archives worldwide forever. 

Generative-AI tools may assist drafting, translation, or analysis, yet cannot receive authorship. Usage must be clearly acknowledged. Undisclosed AI ghost-writing contravenes ethics, risking rejection, correction, or retraction, and safeguards SEO credibility, scholarly authenticity, and humble trustworthiness before God and readers. 

Each reviewer pledges confidentiality, constructive tone, timely three-day turnaround, and avoidance of coercive citations. Conflicted reviewers recuse themselves. Outstanding service earns Watchman Reviewer Awards and APC-waiver credits, strengthening SEO reputation and nurturing a supportive, Christ-centred scholarly community of global excellence.