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Anthony B. Robinson

https://www.anthonybrobinson.com/
Tony is a writer, teacher, speaker and ordained minister (United Church of Christ). He served as Senior Minister of Seattle’s Plymouth Congregational Church for fourteen years. His newest book is Useful Wisdom: Letters to Young (and not so young) Ministers. He divides his time between Seattle and a cabin in Wallowa County of northeastern Oregon. If you’d like to know more or receive his regular blogs in your email, go to his site listed above to sign-up.
Reflections

Your New Mission Statement: Try Less Hard?

One of life's paradoxes is that sometimes trying super hard can really mess things up, while trying a little less hard can create a space in which good things happen that we never saw coming or would have ever imagined on our own.
blog

Nothing Left but the Killing?

At some level I was thinking, “How horrible to be trapped in such an all-consuming conflict where you see no alternative but to take one deeply flawed and implicated side or the other.”
Elsewhere

End of Summer: Mule Days, Gen Z Goes to Church and Ed Sullivan

“Muledays” was a sweet, if low key, affair at the County Fairgrounds. We all stood to say the Pledge of Allegiance together at the beginning, then watched kids do the “Boot Scramble” race.
Politics

Should Democrats Shut Down the Government?

Among the people I know and with whom I talk, there is a consensus. That consensus is that we face one big problem: Trump. What he is doing is terrible, perhaps irretrievably so. But I have a bit different take on things than most of my liberal friends.
Health

My Reservations About Medically Assisted Dying

Being human has something to do with accepting our limits and finitude, that we aren’t really much in control, or at least as much as we’d like to think. It involves experiencing our shared vulnerability as mortals.
Reflections

Color me Awed

Yes, autumn is “in the air.” Its beauty, its colors, the feel of it — a kind of exhilarating tonic — quickening your pulse, the daylight shorter but somehow brighter.
Reflections

The Sounds of (Minneapolis) Silence

I find a different silence, the second silence, the silence that is “too deep for words,” to be where I go and what I need at such times.
Reflections

Radical Skepticism has Eaten Truth from the Inside

My point is not to launch a witch-hunt for post-modernists. It is to try to get a handle on how the view that there’s no truth, only power, and the posture of radical skepticism devolve into a cynicism that is corrosive to the soul and to society.
Politics

How did we get to this Dysfunction? Post-Modernism

According to this idea, there is no truth, not really. There is only power. There is no legitimate authority, only power. There are no objective facts, but only narratives that support or diminish one group’s power over others.
Politics

The Way to Beat Trump is not to Become Like Him

A prosocial agenda is about valuing social order, cooperation, and our common life together. I suspect that many Americans, as David Brooks suggests, are ready for a politics that builds up our common bonds rather than giving both implicit and explicit permission to the mean-spirited and vindictive.
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