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#5 – We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston – 2025 Best Reads
Surprise! A tale of Texas makes the Top 10 Best Reads of 2025.
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“To Know the Country Whole”
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#6 – Erasure by Percival Everett – 2025 Best Reads
Percival Everett makes the Top 10 list for the second straight year.
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#7 – Middlemarch by George Eliot – Best Reads
It only took 150 years for George Eliot to make the Best Reads list.
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#8 – Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan – 2025 Best Reads
A timeless tale, well-told. Claire Keegan brings in the next Best Read.
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#9 – By the Word Worked by Fleming Rutledge – 2025 Best Reads
The 2025 Top 10 continues with one of my favorite Virginians – Fleming Rutledge.
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Among the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers – 2025 Best Reads #10
I’ve been ranking best reads of the year since 2017. Here’s what I wrote by way of criteria from that first year: Since everyone else…
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Fleming Rutledge would like a word…from God
For all the space it takes up in our worship services, the sermon as an object of critical study has suffered from criminal neglect. Enter…
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Father’s Day in Bujumbura
My latest post is up on the Streetlight Magazine blog. A reflection on connection and hope in Burundi. Check it out!
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