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About the Kerygma Codex

What the Codex Is

The Kerygma Codex is a public commons of prayerful language, practices, and safeguards for those seeking a faith that heals rather than harms.

It is not a new doctrine, denomination, or control system. It is offered as a servant grammar — a shared language for naming, repairing, and cultivating healthy spiritual life. Its central vision is to cultivate a repair ecology: a habitat where healing becomes natural.

It imagines faith less like a performance system and more like a garden of chapels — a place of rest, consent, and careful discernment, where healing becomes natural.

If your nervous system has been strained by religious pressure, spiritual performance, or coercive certainty, you are especially welcome here.

License

The Kerygma Codex is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) licence.

In plain terms: you are free to share and adapt this work, even for commercial purposes, provided you:

  • Give appropriate credit to the Kerygma Codex contributors
  • Release any adaptations under the same or a compatible licence
  • Do not apply legal terms or technological measures that restrict what the licence permits

Ethical Use Addendum

The Ethical Use Addendum forms a binding part of the licence and applies to all use, adaptation, distribution, and derivative works. In brief, all use must:

  • Honour human dignity and consent
  • Protect the vulnerable and preserve safeguarding
  • Avoid coercion, shame, or behavioural control
  • Remain compatible with trauma-aware pastoral care
  • Preserve truthful, gentle, cruciform love as the measure of coherence

If any use increases fear, shame, urgency, domination, or control, it is prohibited.

Read the full Ethical Use Addendum on GitHub →

How to Contribute

Contributions are welcomed, but always subject to the Guardrails, Tests, and Covenant of Posture. This is a protected garden, not an open battlefield.

Read the Contributing Guidelines on GitHub →

Source Repository

The full source for the Kerygma Codex — content, build files, and issues — is hosted at https://github.com/mbaldwinsmith/kerygma_codex.

May this grammar serve healing, not harm.
May it widen mercy, not narrow belonging.
May it remain gentle, even when truth remains firm.