Author: Tim Challies

Few matters are more consequential to a man than his name, for a name has importance, a name has association, a name has meaning. The name of Caesar means power. The name of Herod means cruelty…See AlsoThose Who Sing Songs in the NightMaybe You Need To Declare a Name Amnesty SundayThe Ordinary Means of Grace

I do my best to maintain Inbox Zero. At least once or twice a day, I like to process my emails and take action on each one of them. Though this can be onerous at times, it ensures I stay on top of my correspondence. As I went through this process the other morning, I realized that Substack has become one of my biggest challenges. It’s a good challenge, of course. Many great writers have migrated from blogs to Substack and it is a joy to subscribe to a lot of them—over 50 at last count. Yet each Substack sends an email with each update and this often means I receive 10 or even 12 a day. I often don’t have time to read them in the moment, so they tend to pile up. Thankfully, I managed to find a workaround for dealing with the problem.1 But this raises an issue I have been meaning to suggest to those who use Substack. The Substack model is built around offering both free and paid content. Most writers offer some of their articles for free while they offer the rest (and often the best) exclusively to paid subscribers. I have never been on the writing end of the service so cannot speak to the model’s effectiveness, but I assume it works well enough. This is what I want to ask Christian writers who use Substack: Do people support you in order to receive exclusive content or do they support you because they appreciate you and the content…See AlsoA La Carte (April 1)A La Carte (October 21)A La Carte (May 17)