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FAQs

The basics

Neither. We have writers from across the political spectrum who advocate to make sure their political views are fairly represented. The Pour Over aims to be politically neutral not because the middle is correct – it’s often not – but because we believe it is what is most helpful in understanding current events.

Want to see it for yourself? Read our coverage of the most contentious stories of the past few years.

Yes! TPO is always free, and always will be. If you want more, our app has the option to pay for a premium Christ-first news experience (where you also get to hang out a little more with our squirrel mascot, Shadrach).
The Pour Over is 97% owned and controlled by employees (the other 3% is friends and family). We have complete editorial independence, so all our mistakes are our own!
No. The Pour Over is run by Christians and aims to help Christians build a spiritually healthy relationship with the news, but is not affiliated with any church or denomination. You can read our statement of beliefs here and how we write our Christian perspectives here.
We believe in the sanctity of life, and we believe that Christians are called to love and care for the unborn, single mothers, women who have received abortions, and people who passionately disagree with us on this topic.

How we work

Our goal is to understand all sides of a story before we summarize for our readers. This means we read a wide range of sources, including outlets that are generally politically center (e.g., Reuters, The Hill), overtly conservative (e.g., Fox News), overtly liberal (e.g., CNN), and plenty of others (e.g., WSJ, AP, Axios, BBC). We typically link multiple sources in every story for you to fact-check or dive deeper into a story.

Click here to read more about how we handle story selection.

Mostly, we don’t. You trust us (we hope), and we’re not outsourcing Christ-first news.

Our content team views writing as an act of love and worship. Love, because we aim to serve you by summarizing the top headlines with clarity, brevity, levity, and dignity; and worship, because we glorify our Creator by reflecting him in our creative endeavors. A chatbot can’t love or worship… so our writers count robots out for ideating, organizing, wordsmithing, and revising TPO’s content.

Bots aren’t so good with love and worship, but they’re great with data. So our business team uses AI for all kinds of analysis and processes to help get Christ-first news to more news-weary Christians.

Keep an eye out for the human fingerprint of The Pour Over: down-to-earth news context, silly puns, Millennial nostalgia, excessive responsible use of strikethroughs, and simple gospel reminders. If we ever stop making obscure references to The Office, you’ll know robots have taken over.

We send the news to your inbox on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and send a deeper dive into one audience-voted topic in Saturday’s “TPO Explains.”
Absolutely! We love emails, but you can also find our podcast, it's the newsletter, but for your ears, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Support & extras

We sure do! Glad you're interested in becoming a walking billboard for unbiased Christian news. Check out our store here!
First, thank you for that desire! The best ways to support us are by sharing TPO with friends or Choosing to Pay for our news. We are not a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and do not accept donations.
If you're trying to find the name of that beautiful cookware or those tasty electrolytes, just shoot us an email at news@thepourover.org.