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Tennessee Lookout
New synthetic opioid linked to 19 Tennessee deaths exposes limits in detection and legal clarity
An emerging opioid exposes gaps in detection and legal clarity. Follow the reporting at Tennessee Lookout.
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Governing
A Scalable Model for Reducing Recidivism
What changes when housing, work and support continue after release? An examination of long-term reentry.
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When narcotics intelligence becomes your best homicide evidence
How careful documentation in one investigation can become crucial evidence in another.
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Book reviews by Brandon Burley
A selection from my Goodreads reading shelf. Selection updated September 28, 2026; follow Goodreads for newer reviews.
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Climate Migration: A Christian Call to Action in a Warming World
By Chris Doran
Chris Doran’s Climate Migration: A Christian Call to Action in a Warming World is exactly what its subtitle promises. This is an advocacy book. Doran wants Christians to reconsider how they think about migration, climate displacement, hospitality, justice, borders, and the people who can disappear behind political arguments. Some of that challenge is worth hearing. Migrants remain people made in the image of God. Christians do not get to stop seeing their neighbors because immigration has become politically divisive. Creation belongs to God, and concern for vulnerable people should not be dismissed simply because certain arguments are associated with the political left. Where the book loses…Read the full review on Goodreads →
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Dwelling in Christ: Discover the Threefold Path of Spiritual Transformation
By Jonathan R. Bailey
Dwelling in Christ: Discover the Threefold Path of Spiritual Transformation The central argument of Jonathan R. Bailey's Dwelling in Christ is deceptively simple: Spiritual transformation is usually much slower than we want it to be. Bailey begins with his own experience of what…Read the full review on Goodreads →
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One Nation over God
By Wes Crawford
Wes Crawford’s One Nation over God asks a question that is easy to answer badly: When does patriotism become idolatry? Crawford approaches the subject through the idea of American civil religion—the collection of national stories, rituals, symbols, sacred places, revered…Read the full review on Goodreads →
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A Mission Held in Trust: Stewarding the Church-Related University (Advances in Church-Related Higher Education)
By Todd C. Ream
A Mission Held in Trust: Stewarding the Church-Related University An institution's mission is not something the current generation simply owns. It is something leaders inherit, steward for a period of time, and eventually hand to someone else. Edited by Todd C. Ream, Jerry…Read the full review on Goodreads →