Line upon Line

Meridian is kind of a miracle. We originally thought we would publish an every-other-month paper magazine and 26 years ago it just came together into the earliest online E-Magazine for Latter-day Saints. Not only that, but it quickly ended up being a five-days-a week magazine with a pool of fabulous writers. Each weekday is a new edition. We have now published 6,710 editions of Meridian. With all that—we need your continuing voluntary subscription support!

Yes, we come to you every year and sadly, only a small group of you amazing readers respond—about 1.5% of our active readers. That means that more than 98 out of every 100 of you continue to read the magazine regularly for free. So many people in the background of your lives bring you things that you enjoy and most of us don’t realize all that it takes to bring you those wonderful things.

If you already know the drill, you can support the mission of Meridian and become a Voluntary Subscriber by CLICKING HERE. 

Meridian takes daily effort, daily work, daily updating, daily posting. We have a very small staff with most of the same infrastructure expenses that all the big sites have online.

We have to pay for servers. This is what allows you to jump online, type in latterdaysaintmag.com and then, these servers allow you to access all of Meridian’s database. When you click on an article you want to read, that article is stored on the server and you have free access to pull it up and read it. But it isn’t free.

We have to pay for our email platform. Scores of thousands of you receive Meridian’s executive summary of what’s newly published that day and the latest news articles from around the world to keep you informed. When you see that email that has arrived in your box as early as 3:30 AM, you simply click on it and open it and read anything there with free access. But it isn’t free.

We have to pay for royalty free photographs to illustrate our articles. Yes, many times we can draw from my own photographic archives or from some that The Church of Jesus Christ offers to us, but mostly, each photograph comes from our stock houses where we have subscriptions. It’s free for you to enjoy. But it isn’t free.

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We have a number of domains that allow you to come to Meridian Magazine. Yes, there is the most common one: latterdaysaintmag.com and then there’s meridianmagazine.com and the old one that is now a forwarding address to us: ldsmag.com and a few others. All of these provide free, easy access to find us on the web. But it isn’t free.

We have beautiful designs that allow you to enjoy the magazine in a wonderful way. The whole magazine and its appearance seems to magically appear on your screen and indeed, you see everything for free. But it isn’t free.

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What you don’t see in the backend is search engine optimization. This helps you and others find what you are wanting to read and other related articles that are in that same category or theme. It also allows you to search the web for something you are researching and find it quite readily. The searches are based on a series of complex algorithms that allow you to seamlessly and painlessly find what you are looking for. This is free for you. But it’s not free.

We have staff who search the news and find the best stories to keep you informed on the goings-on of the world on a daily basis. We have published more than a quarter-of-a-million news links on Meridian in all these years. This makes it so easy and free for you to stay informed in an ever-changing world. But it isn’t free.

We do a weekly podcast on Come Follow Me that we have been doing for six years now. We have had about 10 million downloads of the podcast, all for free. But it isn’t free.

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I think you get the picture. Meridian comes to you for free, but it isn’t free. But we keep doing it day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. Nothing will stop us from publishing Meridian—except finances. Because Meridian is not free.

And I hope some of you noticed this recent change on Meridian, we pulled the plug on Google AdSense ads. You are no longer deluged with ads that are based on what they think you want. This is great for your cleaner search of things you want to read on Meridian, but we then cut ourselves off from that monthly income. We just didn’t want the encumbrance of those Google ads anymore. We hope that helps you, but it cost us thousands and thousands of dollars.

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We give you 260 issues a year. We give you more than 50 podcasts a year. We bring you some of the finest Latter-day Saint authors anywhere. We want to lift and inspire you. We want your lives to be blessed.

We ask for only one small season a year for you to voluntarily subscribe to Meridian Magazine. We suggest a subscription cost of $40. If you’ve been a reader for a very long time (which many of you have) and you have never sent in or paid for a subscription, do you think you might want to help now? Or, if you paid for a subscription last year, will you do it again? You have been our lifeblood. This is what keeps Meridian going—your support. We are passionate about what we do. We love what we do. We love our writers. We love our content. We love you readers—and we need your ongoing support.

You can give a one-time subscription of $40 or much more or, as many readers do, you can set up a recurring subscription of whatever amount you want to do on a monthly, quarterly, semiannually or annual basis. We are grateful for anything that you can do and will do.

Jump right in to support Meridian Magazine’s ongoing publishing mission by CLICKING HERE.

If you don’t feel comfortable doing an online subscription with your credit card, you can send a check made out to Meridian Magazine here:

Meridian Magazine
PO Box 203
American Fork, UT 84003-0203

Thank you for your continuing support. We so appreciate you!

Scot & Maurine Proctor.
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief.
Meridian Magazine.