Listing policy

Christian Rated lists what a Christian household reads, watches, listens to and taps on: Bibles, apps and websites, kids’ titles, channels and streaming services, podcasts and worship catalogs, books, devotionals and curricula. Most of what a Christian uses in a week was not made by Christians: the phone, the streaming service, the note app, the kids’ tablet. We list those too, when people use them for faith, study or family, and we say plainly who made each thing.

Who gets listed

Anyone can suggest a resource from the browsing pages or Suggest a resource, without signing in or representing its maker. An editor reviews the suggestion before deciding whether to list it. Makers can also submit resources through their separate form. A suggestion does not need ten requests and does not publish a listing automatically. The reasons we decline are practical: the thing does not exist, it is not something people use for faith, study or family, it duplicates a listing, or it is a person rather than a work. Doctrine is not a reason.

Channels are listed by the channel, not by individual videos, and never by the person. The platforms themselves, such as YouTube, are listed too, as general products, because that is where most of this lives. Subscriber counts are not shown; they are not a vote.

What each listing represents

Artists, authors and hosts are creators. Reviews describe their named resources. A music catalog, album and song recording are separate types: a catalog vote is about the released body of music; an album or song vote must identify that particular release or recording. Their votes are not combined. A book is the named work and edition, rather than its author.

Concordances, commentaries, lexicons, Bible dictionaries and atlases are reference works under Read. An app or website that contains those tools remains an app or website, with study-tool filters describing its capabilities. A show with a companion app remains a show unless the listing specifically reviews the app.

Kids is an audience shelf. A children’s Bible can also appear under Bibles; children’s music can also appear under Listen. Each is the same listing with the same review history wherever it is found. Result cards and listing pages name the resource type and the scope of a review. A Bible storybook or retelling is labeled as such, rather than presented as a complete Bible translation.

Christian-made or general: labeled, never scored

Every listing carries one of four labels. The label is a fact from the maker’s own pages, with a source and a fetched date, and the maker can dispute it.

Label	Meaning
Christian ministry	A church, nonprofit or ministry that says it is Christian.
Christian company	A business whose stated purpose is Christian.
Christian creator	One person or a small team who present their work as Christian.
General company	Made for everyone. Listed because Christians use it for faith, study or family.

A general product is never marked down for being general, and a Christian-made one is never marked up for being Christian. Same facts, same meters, same vote. The label can be filtered on; it never weights anything.

Where the maker discloses a tradition or a funding model, it is shown as the maker states it. Where it does not, the listing says “not disclosed”. Neither is a score.

Facts

Spec sheets distinguish verified facts, pending maker claims, disputed or outdated information, and details not yet researched. A populated field is not automatically an independently verified fact. Source links and verification dates are shown when documented; missing information stays unknown. Maker submissions enter a verification queue rather than publishing confirmed facts automatically. Ages on children’s listings remain the maker’s guidance, not an endorsement of suitability.

Institutional positions, such as an imprimatur, a conference approval or a denominational resolution, are listed when they are public and dated, against as well as for. An approval is not a quality endorsement, and a non-approval is not a quality defect. A maker cannot ask for one to be left out.

Editions

A revised edition is a new row, not an edit to the old one. Reviews stay pinned to the edition they were written about, and readers see a note when a text has been revised since a review was written. Editions in other languages sit on their own rows under their language; the facts are the same in every language, only the page text changes.

Never delisted on doctrine

We never delist on doctrine. A listing is withdrawn only when the thing itself is discontinued or when the law requires it. Every withdrawal is named and dated on the transparency page and written to the public vote log. The reviews of a withdrawn listing stay in the log.

A maker cannot buy a listing, remove one, delist a competitor, or object to a competitor being listed. A seller can request an outbound link or discuss a commercial agreement, but activation requires operator approval and any paid relationship is disclosed. The maker form changes facts and links only. It never creates, moves, edits or removes a review or a vote, and it cannot get a listing ranked, featured or recommended.

Where to read or buy it

A resource can be listed for learning and review without an enabled seller link. Seller buttons require staff approval through an agreement or a seller request. An approval names the resource, exact destination and, when relevant, the specific printed edition. A submitted request does not enable the link automatically.

Commercial links may support Christian Rated through a fee or commission. Paid links carry a label, the public commercial disclosure and a sponsored attribute. Payment does not change reviews, ratings or editorial conclusions. Related-product conflicts remain disclosed separately, and our own products cannot have paid links.

Reference citations remain available for checking resource details, independently of seller agreements. Read how seller links work, the links policy, or request a seller link.

Our own app

REVA and REVA Kids are listed under the same rules as every other app. Their facts come through the same maker form and verification process, and their pages carry no editorial content from us and no rating markup for search engines. Pending claims remain labeled as pending. Ties break against our products. The full list is on the conflicts page.

Guides may discuss REVA Bible Companion and REVA Kids when they are relevant to the reader’s purpose. Each such guide displays our ownership and its external-review status, labels the product mention, and links to public sources. A guide credit names the author and, after a completed external review, the reviewer’s role, affiliation, connections and review date. Maker information and external opinions are kept distinct. No guide mention can be bought, and inclusion does not change a product’s scores or grant a recommendation seal.

Requests

Missing something people actually use? Suggest it from any hub. Think a fact is wrong? Request a correction from the spec sheet. Think a description is unfair? That is the disputes process. Requests are recorded in the staff inbox and their outcomes are counted on Transparency. Include an email if you would like a reply.