Organizational Membership

Setting up your organization's membership.

How to use your organizational membership.

The Dashboard

One button and they all have it.

Push an essay and it lands on every member's dashboard under your name. Everything below is how to get there.

The page a member opens. A dark header labelled Organizational Membership carries the organization's name. Below it sits a row of four covers, each marked Essay or Podcast.

Part One

If you administer it

Steps one to four are the setup and you do them once. Step five is the one you will use every week.

  1. Sign in with the address you bought with

    Everything below needs you signed in as an administrator. Use Sign in at the top of any page and we will email you a link. A different address, even your own personal one, will not carry your administrator rights.

    If your organization page opens instead of a sign-in screen, you are in.

  2. Check your email domains

    Open your organization page. Under Email domains you will see every domain on your agreement. Anyone whose email address ends in one of them gets access by signing up.

    Most organizations have more than one. A second campus, a school inside the university, an address people still use from before a rebrand. Check that all of them are listed before you announce anything. People on a missing domain will be turned away.

    You cannot add a domain yourself. Email institutions@mereorthodoxy.com and we will add it.

    Every domain your people use is listed under Email domains.

  3. Send out your link and code

    Both are on your organization page with a Copy button next to each. They were also in your confirmation email. The link looks like mereorthodoxy.com/join/?i=your-organization. The code is eight characters.

    Put them where your people actually look. A staff email, the intranet, a syllabus, the weekly bulletin. Send them this guide as well so they have Part Two.

    Anyone at one of your domains who opens the link and enters the code becomes a member on the spot. If your agreement caps seats, the join page shows what is left.

  4. Invite anyone outside your domains

    Adjuncts, partners, board members, a staff member who only has a personal address. On your organization page, use Invite an individual with their first name, last name and email. For a list, open Invite several at once and paste one person per line with the name and email separated by a comma.

    They appear under Recently invited, and they do not need the code.

  5. Push your first piece

    Open any essay or any episode of Mere Fidelity or Christians Reading Classics. Signed in as an administrator, you will see a Push button at the end of the row of controls under the title. Press it once.

    No Push button means your account is not an administrator yet. Add yourself from the Administrators section of your organization page. Email us if you would rather we did it.

    The row of article controls: play, bookmark, PDF, gift and dark-mode buttons, then a Push button at the right-hand end.
    The Push button sits at the end of the article controls. Only administrators see it.

    The button changes to Pushed. That is the whole action. Your people have it.

  6. See what you have sent and take things down

    Your organization page lists everything you have pushed under Curated content. That list is exactly what your people see.

    To remove something, open it and press Pushed again. Nothing is deleted and nobody is notified.

    The button returns to Push and the piece leaves both the Curated content list and your people's page.

  7. Let a colleague push too

    In the Administrators section of your organization page, enter a colleague's email and press Add admin. Useful if your communications director chooses the reading and you would rather not be the bottleneck.

    Their name joins the administrator list. The Push button appears for them on every article.

Part Two

If someone sent you a link

Your church, school, or employer has already paid for this.

  1. Open the link and fill in one form

    Your name, your email, and the eight-character code you were sent. One page, one button.

    Use your work or school email. That address is what identifies you as covered. A personal account will not be recognized even if it is the one you use for everything else. If your only address is a personal one, ask whoever sent you the link to invite you directly.

    You are finished. Nothing to pay and no trial to remember to cancel.

  2. Find what your organization has sent you

    Go to your dashboard. If anyone at your organization has pushed something, a card is waiting there with your organization's name on it. Open it for the full page shown at the top of this guide.

    A dashboard card labelled Organizational Membership. It is titled with the organization's name and shows a short description, a count of the pieces waiting and an Open link.
    The card counts what is waiting for you.

    No card means nothing has been pushed yet. It does not mean something has gone wrong.

  3. Signing in later

    Use Sign in at the top of any page. We email you a link rather than asking you to invent another password. Sign in with the same work or school address you joined with. Otherwise we will not know you are covered.

    Your organization's card is on your dashboard every time you return.