How New Wine Handles Sources

Transparency about where our content comes from, how it’s used, and how we protect the people who wrote it.

New Wine is not trained on this content

New Wine does not train an AI model on the books, sermons, and commentaries in its library. There is no model that has absorbed these works and learned to imitate them.

Instead, New Wine is a retrieval and citation system. When you ask a question, New Wine searches its indexed library for relevant passages, retrieves them, and presents an answer built on those passages — with every claim traced back to a named author and source. The original works remain intact, attributed, and pointed back to. Nothing is absorbed, blended, or anonymized into a model.

This distinction is the foundation of everything we do. AI tools that flatten a thousand voices into one synthetic answer erase the people who did the work. New Wine exists to do the opposite: put named voices in front of you, with receipts.

Every claim is attributed, never invented

New Wine does not put words in a teacher’s mouth. Every claim in an answer is a paraphrase of what a named source actually teaches — labeled as summary, never presented as the teacher’s own words — and it is always attributed by name, with a link back to where the real teaching lives. No AI-invented citations. No anonymous synthesis presented as someone’s words.

Verified, character-for-character verbatim quoting — software-confirmed against the source before a quote can ever be served — is on our roadmap. It is not live yet. Until it ships, New Wine paraphrases and cites; it does not quote freely.

How content enters the library

Every source in New Wine passes through the same pipeline:

Classification. Before anything is served, each source is assigned a rights status: public domain, owned, licensed, or unverified.
One switch per source. Whether a source’s material can be retrieved is controlled by a single gate in our database, keyed to that source. When it is off, no one can retrieve that material.
Attribution at ingest. Every document is tied to its author or rights-holder at the moment it enters the system, so attribution can never be lost downstream.
Theological review. Featured voices are selected against our theological foundations (see Our Theological Lens) — not scraped indiscriminately.

What we prioritize

The heart of New Wine’s library is public domain literature — the writers of past centuries whose works belong to everyone: R.A. Torrey, Andrew Murray, Charles Finney, the voices of the early Pentecostal outpouring, and many more. These works are freely quotable, and New Wine’s mission is to put them back in front of a generation that has never read them.

For contemporary voices, we pursue direct permission from authors, estates, and ministries. Where content carries open licenses (such as Creative Commons), we honor the license terms, including attribution requirements.

Our interlinear and lexicon word-study data carries this required attribution: “Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).”

Topical verse lists are ranked using data from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references from OpenBible.info, licensed under CC BY 4.0. References with too few reader votes are not shown.

Berean Standard Bible (BSB). Public domain. berean.bible. The reader’s section headings and the Gospel harmony’s parallel passages are the BSB’s own.

World English Bible (WEB). Public domain. ebible.org

Copyright (C) 2023 by Tyndale House Publishers. Adapted from Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary. The original work by Tyndale House Publishers is available for free at http://www.tyndaleopenresources.com. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Provided as-is, without warranties, under the license terms.

For authors and rights holders

If you are an author, publisher, or rights holder and believe your content appears in New Wine improperly — or if you’d like to discuss how your work is represented — contact us directly:

hello@newwine.app

If you are considering giving us permission rather than reporting a problem, Partner with New Wine sets out what we ask for, what we do to keep your words intact, and what you get back.

We respond to every rights inquiry. If content is identified as improperly included, we will remove it from retrieval promptly while the matter is reviewed. We would rather lose a source than misuse one.

Why we built it this way

New Wine’s audience carries a healthy suspicion of AI — and we share it. An AI that invents quotes, launders sources, or speaks as an anonymous oracle is not a tool for serious theological study. Every safeguard on this page exists for one reason: so that when New Wine shows you what Torrey or Murray said, you can trust that they actually said it — and go read them yourself.

New Wine is not a substitute for the sources. It is a doorway to them.