Loading...I am very pleased to announce that we have a new addition to the Blog. This could help you, me, and a person you love. Or like. Or would like to like. A friend, a colleague, a family member. The new addition: the possibility of a GIFT SUBSCRIPTION.
Many, many of you know of someone who would benefit from the blog. By giving a gift subscription, you would make it possible. It’s obvious why that would be a benefit to the person to whom you give the gift. They would have full access to these virtually daily discussions of all things having to do with the New Testament and Christianity in Antiquity. The gift It benefits you because you feel oh so good about yourself. And it benefits me because it contributes to my ultimate objective in running the blog in the first place – raising revenues for charities that deal with hunger and homelessness.
And so I would like to challenge all of you to think of someone who would enjoy being on the blog. Or, well, someone that you think *should* enjoy being on the blog.
To give the gift subscription you will need to know the person’s name (it get’s harder), their email address, AND their proposed user name and password. I suppose you could come up with these yourself if you didn’t want to ask them in advance. Once you fill out the very simple form, you will then be charged a one-time payment for a year’s membership. Unlike your own membership, this one will not renew automatically at the end of the year.
You will see the button to click for a gift subscription brightly highlighted on the landing page of the blog. If you have any questions about it all, let me know.
PLEASE think about giving a subscription. Or two. Or twenty-nine. The world will be a better place if you do!
Just for the record, I think everyone should be on this blog! But I’ll think of some people that may want to participate in this adventure.
My new RoadScholar catalog offers a course in Daytona Beach coordinated by Stetson University called “The Apostle Paul; How Jesus became God; Biblical Heroines” Are you teaching it, or did they just steal your title?
Ha! No, I have never heard of it until now.
What a terrific idea! What is your view about allowing advertising on your website? Many websites, such as the “Rethinking Biblical Christianity” website of Peter Enns, have such advertising. Good Morning America just had an story on an 8-year-old who has made a million dollars with youtube hits on his videos reviewing toys and I know a man who has made a bunch with his blog about the Oakland Raiders getting a penny a hit I think for his blog which advertises Oakland Raider t-shirts, etc..
I’ve never given it much thought. I guess in general I’m against commercializing the blog. But I’ll think about it.
Dunno. Yes, Patheos has advertising, but Patheos is also free. The problem with putting advertising on a paid site is that (a) the pay per hit for the ads is, I believe, very low, and since a paid site likely gets fewer hits than a free site, the ad revenue seems likely to be very low also and (b) I suspect the ads tend to annoy paid subscribers — on a free site you know the ads are the cost of it being free, but when you’re already paying… Granted the money is going to charity, so people may be more tolerant, but given that I think the ad revenues are low, it would take a lot of hits to counteract losing even one subscriber.