Editorial integrity
Arguments are tested for structure, exegesis, clarity, and consequence — not for alignment with a market.
An Independent Imprint · Est. 2026
Sailors don’t take a bearing to feel bad about the drift. They take it to come about.
Come About Press publishes for the western church: books that take an honest bearing, then make the turn, recovering treasures the church has carried before and can carry again.
Come About Press publishes work that takes the faith seriously enough to argue with it — and loves the church enough to tell it the truth.
The catalog
The Chart
Five titles so far. Each carries a distinct question; all are held to the same heading.
In print
Given, not sold.
000° · The origin
What Now?
Larry Rutledge · Theology
A small book for the first hours of a new life — written to be put in a hand, not on a shelf. It answers the questions every new believer actually asks.
In print
Forthcoming
Four cardinal points of one heading. Each stands alone, so start anywhere.
N · The Story
Why Everything Changed
Larry Rutledge · Theology
The gospel as restored breath — cross, resurrection, and Pentecost as three acts of one rescue. And an honest diagnosis of how worship turned transactional, and stopped.
In progress
E · The Person
The Domesticated Christ
Larry Rutledge · Theology
The untamed King against the leash we keep reaching for — a reckoning with the Christ the church has made manageable, and the One it actually serves.
Planned
S · The Place
Made for Here
Larry Rutledge · Theology
Heaven is not an evacuation plan. It moves down. The story of a God who is not carrying us away, but moving in to stay.
Planned
W · The Response
Worth-While
Larry Rutledge · Theology
What worship actually is. What it means to treasure, what the gathering is for — and why the answer was never a style.
Planned
What we publish
We publish the turn — the moment a reader sees the same thing differently and can’t go back.
Come About Press is a small independent imprint that refuses to drift with the prevailing wind. We’re interested in writing that’s compressed, honest, and pointed — argument over explanation, the hard sentence over the safe one.
- Theology
- Written for the western church, from inside it — not to shame the drift, but to recover what the drift cost.
- Essays
- Honest bearings on the life of the church, taken one argument at a time.
- Fiction
- People who discover the thing they trusted most was quietly working against them. Different waters, same heading.
Come About Press is run by one person, not a committee. I write, edit, and publish these books because the drift they describe is one I know from the inside.
Larry Rutledge
Founder · Come About Press
The work
Made with the patience of an instrument.
A book should carry the weight of its argument in its physical presence: measured, durable, built to be returned to.
Material restraint
Typography, paper, and binding serve the book. Nothing shouts where quiet confidence will hold.
Long usefulness
Books made for underlining, lending, teaching, and finding again years after the first reading.
Press room
For conversations about the life of the church.
Bearings
Get word when a new title makes port.
No noise. A short note when there’s something worth reading — a release, an excerpt, a change of course.