Thanks to My Paid Subscribers!

And how readers can decide whether to stay free or switch to paid

It’s been about a year now since I first accepted paid subscriptions to The Pietist Schoolman. As I wrote in introducting that feature, it was the first time in my blogging career that I’d given readers a chance to pay for what I wrote, and I didn’t take that step lightly.

For eleven years, “writing a completely free blog gave me a respite from the chang…