I'm not entirely sure about pressing for swaps at present, but we could try it. You could turn off autorenew here I believe https://www.wmreview.org/account and then take out the Stripe version?
I am so happy to read of the positive impact that your work has had with so many Catholics; the doctrinal and theological quality of your articles is excellent, and your willingness to engage with your readers and critics in an intellectually honest and charitable way is to be commended. Hopefully 2026 will see even better results.
By signing up with a one year subscription is this accompanied by an automatic renewal that I have to opt out of or am I just notified it is time to renew? I hate to have ongoing automatic renewals and/or being required to unsubscribe to stop if I so choose.
I understand. I assume (it's not really my area) that it is autorenew and I assumed you can opt out. It is easy to opt out of substack autorenewal though. You go to www.wmreview.org/account
So even though not signed up as a subscriber this would still allow access to member only articles (if more than the yearly rate) without triggering automatic renewal? If so, I like that option.
To cancel an auto-renew you go to the account page and hit cancel subscription.
You’ll get the option to either pause your subscription (which I would’ve done if I had known it was an option for Advent where I was unable to read much) or cancel which supplies you with access until the end of your subscription but cancels the autorenew.
Substack will pop up a survey asking why you cancelled and not wanting to use autorenew is an option.
Stripe is known to have banned accounts for the views of their owners in the past. Are there any reasonable alternatives?
Should I swap from my Substack subscription?
I'm not entirely sure about pressing for swaps at present, but we could try it. You could turn off autorenew here I believe https://www.wmreview.org/account and then take out the Stripe version?
I am so happy to read of the positive impact that your work has had with so many Catholics; the doctrinal and theological quality of your articles is excellent, and your willingness to engage with your readers and critics in an intellectually honest and charitable way is to be commended. Hopefully 2026 will see even better results.
As usual: "keep up the good work"
M.W.
Thanks Michael, and thanks for your support!
By signing up with a one year subscription is this accompanied by an automatic renewal that I have to opt out of or am I just notified it is time to renew? I hate to have ongoing automatic renewals and/or being required to unsubscribe to stop if I so choose.
I understand. I assume (it's not really my area) that it is autorenew and I assumed you can opt out. It is easy to opt out of substack autorenewal though. You go to www.wmreview.org/account
Alternatively as I said in the thing, you can do a one time donation at or above the annual fee and we will just comp your account.
So even though not signed up as a subscriber this would still allow access to member only articles (if more than the yearly rate) without triggering automatic renewal? If so, I like that option.
Yes if you make a one time donation and request it be counted as membership fees for the year, we will honour that.
To cancel an auto-renew you go to the account page and hit cancel subscription.
You’ll get the option to either pause your subscription (which I would’ve done if I had known it was an option for Advent where I was unable to read much) or cancel which supplies you with access until the end of your subscription but cancels the autorenew.
Substack will pop up a survey asking why you cancelled and not wanting to use autorenew is an option.
Stripe is known to have banned accounts for the views of their owners in the past. Are there any reasonable alternatives?
I'm not sure. I think we are reasonably OK with Stripe for now. They haven't banned for views like those expressed here, as far as I know.
Fair enough. FYI substack offers discounts for re-subscribing that you’ll be competing with.
Thanks VM for your great works.