About the press
Household Theology Press is a free library for parents who teach the Christian faith at home. It publishes two historic catechisms with notes for parents, printables for every question, and practical guides to family worship and homeschooling. It sells nothing, shows no ads and asks for no sign-up.
Who is behind it?
Household Theology Press is the personal project of Michael Tribett. It belongs to him, not to any company, and he is its publisher. He holds a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and serves in youth ministry and small-group leadership at his church. The press began as a small imprint selling printable catechism resources; it now gives everything away.
What doctrinal standards does it work from?
The press works from the historic Reformed confessions and publishes texts that belong to the Westminster Standards: the Westminster Shorter Catechism and the Catechism for Young Children, which was written as an introduction to it. The press publishes and explains these documents; it does not write new doctrine.
Presbyterian, Continental Reformed and Reformed Baptist families all use this site. Where their churches differ, such as on infant baptism, Sabbath practice, pictures of Christ, singing psalms only, or when children come to the Lord’s Supper, the pages say so plainly, name which confession teaches what, and send families to their own church and elders. The press does not take a side on those points.
Why is everything free?
The catechisms are old, public-domain texts that belong to the whole church, and the work of explaining them to children is work every church shares. So every page, card and copywork sheet here is free to read, print and copy, and the press’s own material is shared under a Creative Commons licence. The site is non-commercial: no store, no ads, no donation requests. The permissions page has the details.
How are the texts and resources checked?
Each catechism text is copied from a named source, never typed from memory, and then compared with at least one other edition. Every catechism page names its source and edition. Scripture quotations are fetched from the publisher’s own service. Links in the resource directory are checked by hand, and every page that can go stale shows the date it was last checked.
- The Shorter Catechism follows the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s constitutional text, compared question by question with two transcriptions of the 1647 text, with spot checks in Schaff’s 1877 edition. The editions differ only in spelling, punctuation and a handful of single words.
- The Catechism for Young Children follows the transcription at Creeds and Confessions, checked against a scan of a Presbyterian Board of Publication printing. One error shared by the online copies, the end of question 61, was corrected from the scan.
- The proof texts are the Westminster Assembly’s own references, quoted from the NET Bible.
- The explanations for parents are written to stay inside what each answer and its proof texts say.
If you find a mistake, please write in. Corrections are made quickly and gladly.
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