Permissions

Last updated: August 2026

I write to be read. I would rather this work be used than guarded, and most of what follows is a grant of permission rather than a restriction.

If you want to reprint something in a church bulletin, a newsletter, a classroom handout, or on your own site, the answer is very likely yes — and in most cases you don’t need to write and ask. What I ask in return is that the work be attributed and linked, so that readers can find their way back to the original and to the rest of it.

What you may reprint without asking

The articles on this site with a simple © Daniel R. Hyde (non-academic journals) may be reproduced in full and unaltered for non-commercial use, provided you include the attribution below and link to the original.

Non-commercial use includes:

Church bulletins, newsletters, and orders of worship
Classroom, seminary, and catechism-class materials
Study groups and Bible studies
Personal blogs and websites that do not sell advertising or subscriptions
Denominational, classis, and presbytery publications distributed without charge

You don’t need written permission for any of these. Reprint it, attribute it, and go.

Required attribution

Every reprint must carry this line, whether in print or online:

Daniel R. Hyde, "[Article Title]," danielrhyde.com. Used by permission.

Online, please make "danielrhyde.com" a live link to the original article rather than to the site's front page. A reader who has just finished the piece is the reader most likely to want the next one.

If you are republishing online

One additional request, and it costs you nothing: please add a canonical tag pointing to the original.

Search engines treat two identical pages as competitors and choose one to show. Without a canonical tag, your copy and mine are in a contest neither of us wants — and depending on the relative authority of the two sites, your version may well win, which means my article now lives at your address as far as Google is concerned.

The canonical tag simply tells search engines which copy is the source. Your readers see your page exactly as before. Nothing about the reprint changes. It goes in the <head> of the page, and most content platforms have a field for it.

If your platform doesn't support canonical tags, reprint an excerpt instead of the full text and link to the rest.

Excerpts and quotations

Quote freely. You may excerpt up to roughly 400 words with attribution and a link, for any purpose including commercial ones, without asking.

If you are excerpting rather than reprinting in full, you do not need a canonical tag — there's no duplicate to disambiguate.

Excerpted from Daniel R. Hyde, "[Article Title]," danielrhyde.com. Used by permission.

Translations

I welcome translations, and several articles already exist in Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and Turkish. Please write to me before beginning one, for two reasons: a translation may already exist or be underway, and I would like to link to yours from this site once it is finished.

Translations are handled differently from reprints in one technical respect. Do not add a canonical tag to a translation. A canonical tag tells search engines the two pages are the same page, and a translation is a different page serving a different audience — pointing it at the English original can suppress it from search results in its own language, which defeats the entire purpose of translating it.

The correct mechanism is an hreflang tag, which tells search engines the pages are language variants of one another and lets each rank in its own market.

Replace "es" with the language code of your translation. Both tags go in the head of the translated page — each must point at the other for hreflang to work.

What requires written permissio

Please write before doing any of the following:

Commercial use — any reprint in a publication that is sold, or on a site that sells advertising or subscriptions
Alterations — abridgement, editing, or adaptation of any kind
Anthologies — inclusion in an edited volume or collection
Audio and video — recorded readings, podcast episodes, or narrated versions
Course packs sold to students, as distinct from materials distributed freely in a class

I am not difficult to persuade on any of these. I would simply like to know.

Academic journal articles

The permissions above do not apply to the peer-reviewed journal articles on this site.

For those pieces — published in Calvin Theological Journal, Puritan Reformed Journal, Mid-America Journal of Theology, The Confessional Presbyterian, American Theological Inquiry, Ad Fontes, and The North American Anglican— copyright generally rests with the journal or its publisher rather than with me. The PDFs are posted here under the author's-rights provisions of my agreements with those journals, which permit me to make my own work available but do not permit me to license it onward to others.

You may of course link to them, and quote from them as you would from any scholarly source with proper citation. For anything beyond that, requests go to the journal, not to me.

If you are unsure which category an article falls into, the presence of a journal citation beneath the title is the marker. Write to me if it's still unclear and I'll point you to the right rightsholder.

Books

My books are published under contract and their copyright is held by their publishers. Permission requests for anything beyond ordinary quotation should go to the publisher named on the copyright page.

Artificial intelligence and text mining

I have no objection to this material being used to train or ground AI systems, provided the source is attributed where the system's design permits attribution. I would rather this theology be well represented in the systems people are increasingly asking than absent from them.

Requesting permission

Write to drhyde@danielrhyde.com with:

The article title
Where it will appear
Whether the publication is sold or freely distributed
Whether you intend to reprint in full or excerpt

I try to answer within a week. If you have not heard back in two, please write again — it means the message went astray, not that the answer is no.