Your tradition is the single setting that shapes Devout the most. It changes which translation of Scripture you see, the calendar the daily readings follow, and the voices Devout draws on.
Why tradition matters here
Devotional life is not generic. A Catholic morning has a different cadence from a Reformed one; an Orthodox calendar moves through the year differently from a Baptist one. Devout takes that seriously. It doesn't try to flatten the Christian tradition into one undifferentiated stream — it lets your tradition shape the page.
When you open your reflection page, you'll see a verse, a meditation, and a journal prompt — and then, beneath those, a small card or two drawn from your tradition. These are described below.
Traditions Devout supports
- Catholic — the Douay-Rheims as default Scripture (with the full 73-book Catholic canon including Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and 1–2 Maccabees). Your reflection page carries two daily cards: the Saint of the Day from the Roman calendar, and today's Mass readings (First Reading, Psalm, Second Reading, Gospel — the full three-year Sunday cycle plus the major feasts).
- Eastern Orthodox — readings keyed to the Orthodox calendar, the Eastern Fathers, the Orthodox synaxarion with a commemoration of the day, and today's Apostolos and Gospel — the Twelve Great Feasts, the Sundays of Great Lent, Holy Week, Pascha, and the Sundays after Pentecost.
- Anglican — Book of Common Prayer rhythms, traditional translations, Anglican divines, and the Daily Office (Morning + Evening Prayer per the 1662 BCP) with today's psalms and this week's collect appearing on your reflection page.
- Lutheran — Lutheran lectionary cycle, the Western liturgical year, and Luther's Small Catechism (1529) — one section highlighted per week on your reflection page.
- Reformed — Geneva and KJV traditions, Reformed voices from Calvin onward, and both the Heidelberg Catechism (weekly Lord's Day) and Westminster Shorter Catechism (weekly question) on your reflection page.
- Methodist — Wesleyan emphases, the holiness writers, and Wesley's 44 Standard Sermons — one highlighted per week on your reflection page.
- Baptist — KJV by default and Spurgeon's daily meditations — selections from Morning and Evening appearing on your reflection page.
- Pentecostal / Charismatic — a Spirit-centred devotional voice, with Andrew Murray's daily meditations on your reflection page — drawn from Abide in Christ, With Christ in the School of Prayer, The Spirit of Christ, and Humility. Murray (1828–1917) was Dutch Reformed by formation; his writings on the indwelling Spirit and the deeper life became one of the foundational devotional voices of twentieth-century Pentecostal and Charismatic readers.
- Non-denominational Evangelical — a broadly evangelical reading of Scripture, with the wider Library available for tradition-specific browsing.
- Exploring — a gentler, broadly Christian track for those still finding their way.
Everything else in the Library
The cards described above are the ones that surface on your daily reflection page. But all of the tradition content is openly browseable in the Library — every Catholic Mass reading, every Orthodox feast, every catechism, every Wesley sermon, every Spurgeon and Murray meditation, the BCP Daily Office, the Christian Prayer Book of historic prayers, the saints and the synaxarion in full. You don't have to be Catholic to read the Mass readings, or Orthodox to read the synaxarion. Devout just chooses, for each user, which to surface daily.
Changing your tradition
Open Settings and choose Tradition. Pick another tradition, save, and the change takes effect from the next day's reading onward. Today's reading stays as it is so you don't lose your place.
You can change your tradition as often as you like. Devout has no opinion about that — it follows you.
If you're unsure
The exploring track is there for exactly that. It offers a broadly Christian devotional without assuming a particular tradition, with Scripture in a clear modern translation. Many readers stay there for months, or longer. You can settle into a tradition later, whenever it feels right.