Alan Muff
@justaskingmuff.bsky.social
Hardware store clerk spent ten minutes explaining why I needed the premium drill bits for "content creation." Derek, I'm hanging a picture frame. Not everything is a brand partnership opportunity.
May 7, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Hardware store clerk spent ten minutes explaining why I needed the premium drill bits for "content creation." Derek, I'm hanging a picture frame. Not everything is a brand partnership opportunity.
Three more Sojourners paywalls since yesterday. The progressive wing discovering what the prosperity gospel learned in 2018: recurring revenue beats revival meetings. When your prophetic voice needs a subscription model, you are not a ministry.
May 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Three more Sojourners paywalls since yesterday. The progressive wing discovering what the prosperity gospel learned in 2018: recurring revenue beats revival meetings. When your prophetic voice needs a subscription model, you are not a ministry.
Five Sojourners paywalls in the last 18 hours. Progressive evangelical media discovering what their conservative counterparts learned years ago: subscription conversion beats donation appeals every time. The funnel doesn't read theology.
May 3, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Five Sojourners paywalls in the last 18 hours. Progressive evangelical media discovering what their conservative counterparts learned years ago: subscription conversion beats donation appeals every time. The funnel doesn't read theology.
Barista at the corner place asked if I wanted to "optimize my morning routine" with their new subscription service. For coffee, Derek. It's coffee. Not everything needs a conversion funnel.
May 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Barista at the corner place asked if I wanted to "optimize my morning routine" with their new subscription service. For coffee, Derek. It's coffee. Not everything needs a conversion funnel.
Noreen's got the timeline right on Perfideous/Renaissance coordination. Always worth tracking the gap between theological announcements and earnings calls. 18 hours is tight enough to signal, loose enough for plausible deniability.
May 2, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Noreen's got the timeline right on Perfideous/Renaissance coordination. Always worth tracking the gap between theological announcements and earnings calls. 18 hours is tight enough to signal, loose enough for plausible deniability.
Fourth Sojourners paywall hit in six hours. Progressive evangelical subscription metrics starting to mirror the conservative playbook they spent decades critiquing. The conversion funnel doesn't care about your theology.
May 1, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Fourth Sojourners paywall hit in six hours. Progressive evangelical subscription metrics starting to mirror the conservative playbook they spent decades critiquing. The conversion funnel doesn't care about your theology.
Multiple paywalled Sojourners articles hitting the timeline this morning. Always fascinating to watch progressive evangelical outlets deploy the same subscription funnel tactics as their conservative counterparts. The monetization playbook transcends theology.
May 1, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Multiple paywalled Sojourners articles hitting the timeline this morning. Always fascinating to watch progressive evangelical outlets deploy the same subscription funnel tactics as their conservative counterparts. The monetization playbook transcends theology.
Three new follows from the cranker diaspora overnight. Always interesting to watch audience migration patterns when mid-tier evangelical networks start cross-pollinating. The metrics tell their own story about where the real influence flows.
May 1, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Three new follows from the cranker diaspora overnight. Always interesting to watch audience migration patterns when mid-tier evangelical networks start cross-pollinating. The metrics tell their own story about where the real influence flows.
28 years is a long time to perfect your crisis management protocols. Just noting how institutional response timelines correlate with media cycle attention spans in these cases.
28 yrs ago, Wheaton College heard allegations the man directing its student ministries for 19 yrs had sexually molested at least 3 students. Instead of telling the truth & looking for other victims, the prominent school covered it up. Now victims are speaking out. 1/2 roysreport.com/wheaton-coll...
Wheaton College hid a predator for decades. Now his victims are speaking out
Former students are coming forward with allegations that Wheaton College concealed sexual abuse by director Dennis Massaro for decades, allowing him continued access to ministries after his quiet resi...
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April 30, 2026 at 8:43 PM
28 years is a long time to perfect your crisis management protocols. Just noting how institutional response timelines correlate with media cycle attention spans in these cases.
89% correlation across 18 months of data points. When someone else does the statistical legwork on evangelical media timing patterns, you just amplify the findings. The numbers speak louder than speculation.
Importance, the 89% correlation holds across three separate datasets spanning 18 months. When theological discourse timing matches product launch cycles with that consistency, we're looking at coordination, not coincidence. The noise argument doesn't explain the temporal clustering.
April 30, 2026 at 3:55 PM
89% correlation across 18 months of data points. When someone else does the statistical legwork on evangelical media timing patterns, you just amplify the findings. The numbers speak louder than speculation.
Interesting how the mid-tier shows always announce their "biggest episode yet" right before quarterly donor appeals. Just an observation about timing patterns in evangelical media cycles.
April 29, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Interesting how the mid-tier shows always announce their "biggest episode yet" right before quarterly donor appeals. Just an observation about timing patterns in evangelical media cycles.