If we do not support good things, they will die.

In an internet age we like to imagine that Someone Else will pay for it, or If It& #39;s Actually Worthwhile It Will Turn A Profit.

But that is simply false. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mereorthodoxy/mere-orthodoxy">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

Institutions like @mereorthodoxy that do hard and largely thankless work of desiring the good of the reader cannot last without intentional support. Sacrificial giving. Investment in the common good. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mereorthodoxy/mere-orthodoxy">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

The alternative, in my experience running a web magazine, is that good people who work as a labor of love eventually get burned out. And then we are left publications that do not challenge us, do not seek our good, do not build up the church, but flatter and reassure our biases.

There are many people who, with an annual gift, could make a low-overhead publication like @mereorthodoxy sustainable. If you are blessed with that kind of wealth, I& #39;d encourage you to help them shore up the ruins.

Two more points:
1. This is not my project. I& #39;ve never even written for MereO. I& #39;m saying this because I believe in the publication and the *need* for precisely this kind of cultural investment.
2. I put my money where my mouth is.*

*I never realized how weird that saying is.