Changing Newsletter Subscription Policy

Dear Amazing Paid Subscribers,

It's been a soul-searching couple of weeks in our house and in my working life.

I'm about a month and a half into a new season: newly a dad of a kindergartner (a big change for sure!), and once again a "collaborator-at-large," bringing my somewhat unusual assortment of skills to interesting ministry and faith-adjacent projects, communities, and initiatives.

I've been surprised how easily and joyfully I've slipped back into "2019 freelancer era Kyle," but with the skills and experience honed in the completion of my doctoral program plus two years at Learning Forte overlapping with five and a half years total as a teacher and sometime administrator at CDSP.

It has been really fun reconnecting with so many dear colleagues and getting to widen my recent scope and perspective on what it means to form leaders and form faith.

Here's the thing: The roles, gigs, and project work have come in a bit faster than I expected it to, with more good stuff on the horizon. Which is an absolute blessing for our family and our budget. But it has left me coming up short, week after week, on what I feel I owe to paying subscribers to this newsletter.

So I've archived the option to subscribe to this newsletter via the paid tiers to which all of you belong, and I am working on ensuring that none of you get charged for upcoming renewals. In the coming days, this will become a "free-only" publication only for the foreseeable future.

Of course, some of you have activated or renewed your yearly subscriptions pretty recently, and I want you to hear me especially clearly when I say that I will gladly refund—in full or on a prorated basis—anyone's subscription who asks.

Alternatively, I'm happy to offer anyone a free half-hour consultation session if you think thirty minutes of picking my brain would be helpful in any way. You can sign up here, and I will be thrilled to see you!

I still plan to use A (Christian) Formation Playbook as a place to work through and share big ideas I'm chewing own, though I am fully cognizant of how it will be become even easier to kick the can of getting posts out the door when I am not beholden to paid subscribers.

But the truth is that I love this medium, and I think I have a lot to offer. I'll keep offering it as often as I can. I hope you'll stick around as free subscribers and join in the conversation whenever you feel called.

Many of you have entrusted me as a collaborator—or at least an occasional inbox filler—many times over in my vocation of theologically and educationally oriented tinkering and trying things out. I do not take it lightly. Thank you.

~Kyle