Why ‘Middlemarch’ Changed This Catholic Priest’s Life

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  Hey y'all, I'm Shiloh Brooks.

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  I'm a professor and CEO, and I happen to believe that reading good books makes us better men.

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  Today, I'm talking with Father Jonah Teller.

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  Father Jonah is a Dominican friar who serves as parochial vicar at St.

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  Joseph's Church in New York City.

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  George Eliot's Middlemarch, a study of provincial life,

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  published in eight installments from 1871 to 1872, changed Father Jonah's life.

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  Today, I'm asking him why.

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