A Much-Needed Prayer
Grant, O merciful God,
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Tov unleashed: pursuing goodness (tov) in church and life.
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Meanderings, 22 August 2026
Good morning!
Things Not to Pray For
By Mike Glenn
Blue-Books
Should we bring back exams and the blue-book essays?
With Malice Toward None
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The Gospels and the Pharisees
From my new book, Jesus, People, Pharisees (Fortress).
Rethinking the Pharisees
When I read The Pharisees, eds.
Rethinking Pharisees and Exams
I grabbed this photo from the internet.
Psalm for the Day
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Meanderings, 15 August 2026
Illinois and its bordering states have been plummeted with rain, wind, and some violent winds.
We Have to Start Somewhere
By Mike Glenn
When She Becomes Esther
By Elizabeth Neumann, who is a national security expert, violence prevention advocate, and the author of Kingdom of Rage: The Rise of Christian Extremism and the Path Back to Peace. A former Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism at the Department of Homeland Security, she writes about faith, public life, and the work of renewal at
Lincoln's Speech: For Our Time
I’ve become fascinated lately with Abraham Lincoln.
A Woman's Place
I admit some discomfort with the title for this Substack, though I do know those words as a title of a book by three feminist women, but you will see that those words are put in their place by Sandra L.