For many years now I have had a this personal website on the Internet.

I have decided it’s all coming down. There are a lot of reasons for that — which I’d rather not go into right now. The material here will go back up on the Internet in some form — but I’m not sure what and where just yet. My web hosting is paid through December, so the transition can be slow. But, I’ve known for years that I need to abandon that particular project.

At some point, https://craigladams.com/ will redirect to whatever new platform it is to which I have migrated.

Yeah, Substack is interesting — and there are a lot of interesting people here, but I don’t think that will be the primary platform I settle on. I am busily following people and subscribing (for free, so far) to people there. My already overstuffed email inbox is getting flooded with Substack emails — but they are all going to a separate Substack folder — which I might glance at if I feel like it. As a long-time WordPress user, I appreciate the writing tools on Substack. But, Substack is oriented to hosting essays (long form, from what I’ve seen), and podcasts, and live feeds. I currently have no interest at all in live feeds and podcasts — and essays are only part of what I’d like to do. So Substack doesn’t feel like home. It feels like a platform I’d use for publicizing things I’m doing on some other platform.

I’m experimenting with Patreon, but, honestly, I’m still looking. I put up a Bible Study + Sermon slides post recently, so I’ve got some idea of what can be done on that platform, but the writing tools are poor, and the way it is oriented toward Membership tiers doesn’t really fit with what I’m imagining.

I love writing Bible Study + Sermon Slides posts, but it’s rather time consuming. If I can be of assistance to preachers, that would be great. I’ll let you know what’s happening as time goes by.