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God bless the quiet corners of the house or hospital bench that let you delve into essays and paragraphs, the long queues at especially Ugandan offices and service providers that make you glad you can access your book in the bag/Kindle app, and seeing your phone battery is still at 70% too!

See, reading excites me, and over the course of 2025, I have read things that have stirred me deeply. I would like to share some here, as I vividly recall them (but I also hope you can share yours, deal?)

1. Read the Bible

Sometimes Bible reading requires ignition, and foremost theologian Don Carson, whom I learned recently turned 78, has accompanied me all year round with his distilled devotional reflections from the McCheyne Bible year-round Bible reading plan. His understanding of the Old and New Testament genres, biblical theology, and exegesis, are the best thing since sliced Ugandan Rolex. I subscribed to his Read the Bible paragraphs, and now they come and stay in my email inbox until I refresh them every morning to catch up with my regular Bible reading. Yesterday’s 29th December reading, for example, took me through Micah, an obscure OT book (trust me, I would have struggled to navigate alone). Oh, what a joy to get lifted out of the frantic, loud, and busy days and sink that deep into the ancient word! Thank me later too! Precisely, Don Carson’s work has helped me go through the entire Bible in ways I probably would never have, left to myself. Subscribe too.

2. Crossway Devotionals

Weird, but I find that some odd hours of my days are dangerous for my soul, like midday or some lousy evenings and nights, which is when I’m least likely to be spiritually alert. This is when you need a minute of grace and wisdom on top of your email barrage to uphold you as you wait for traffic or the receptionist to return. “Subscribed but not yet read, “Crossway daily devotionals” are always lying there in my email (even without mobile data, waiting to rescue me from worldly shallows). They feature different authors everyday discussing a Bible passage in very faithful and sometimes poetic ways. Detecting John Piper’s verbs, Spurgeon’s flair of speech, or Ortlund’s gentleness has come with the package of enjoying digging into God’s word! check ’em

3. Essay: We are the Slop (Your Life is my background noise).

Chei! I started following Jonathan Haidt sometime back. Haidt, a sociologist, often dissects our generation’s problem with gadgets; little did I know that he had a ferocious writer and thinker on staff, called Freya India. The girl wrote an essay that has not left my mind, one of those things you want to read once every month, especially in our digital age. My! Assess for yourself on this one!

4. Article: The Secular Liturgy of Good Night Moon

This is interesting, because I have never read the book discussed here, yet the choice of words this writer used to assess a book like this from a Christian perspective left me on the floor, spiritually nourished to the dot, especially as a parent too. My wife agreed. And oh, special shout-out to The Gospel Coalition for year-round writing inspiration, by the way!

5. Essay: Christ, the lover of our Souls

Speaking of things you should try to read once a month, grab this essay; every word will sink with biblical weight deep into the corners of your soul. It even helps that it’s a dead theologian who wrote it. I love the writings of dead theologians, so maybe if for no other reason, you can trust a dead theologian too upon my recommendation.

6. Article: Nobody marries after eliminating all risk.

One more weird thing: those who read Muleefu, audience-wise, this year seemed to most engage with this article (probably not because I enjoyed writing it, but because people just like “things of love”) Anyway, if there is one provocative article from me that I also enjoyed reading and writing in 2025, it would be this one!

I’m sure there are many other I will remember after I hit “publish,” but for now, those are my six; tell me yours. (But let’s first agree, no YouTube links, okay? You are such a good person!)

In the internet age, reading is rebellion, so stay in the ranks. Happy New Year of reading in 2026!