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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

Understanding Trump Voters: Be Baffled? Or be Curious?

Instead of judging — labeling and dismissing — these voters, our fellow citizens, one might be curious. What motivated them? Why did some shift, if uneasily, from the party of their parents and grandparents?
Politics

So That Happened…

I suspect two aspects of Democratic strategy backfired. All the court cases against Trump only added to his image as a fighter against the establishment and hardened the loyalty of his base, maybe even enlarging it.
Politics

Don’t Buy the Substitute Religion of Politics

As America has become a more secularized society, politics has emerged as a "replacement" religion for more traditional religions.
blog

Election Puzzle: Crime Is Down but People Feel Unsafe

People aren’t feeling it because while certain types of violent crime are down, a different category — social disorder — is up. What falls under “social disorder”?
blog

Surprises From Our Walking Tour of Japan: Kyoto is a Big City

At a Zen Temple we visited there were several wonderful “dry fish pond gardens” with swept sand representing water. One had been created by a Japanese convert to Christianity who hid a cross in the design of the garden.
blog

Why do Many Voters Support Trump?

My perplexed fellow traveler and I tend to look at and listen to Trump, shake our heads and say, “I don’t get it.” And we don’t. We live in blue bubbles. He in L. A., me in Seattle.
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What Happened to Coach Tim?

Walz needed some Ronald Reagan-esque wry amusement over his opponent. Some humor. And even a little confident condescension toward his much younger opponent.
Cities

One Little Solution for a Big Problem

After touring “Community First! Village” in Austin the folks from Pierce County, are gearing up for such a site of their own on a ninety acre piece of land near Joint Base Lewis McCord. The Pierce County project will have 258 units.
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Trump and the Temple of Self-Justification

What’s the alternative to trying to justify ourselves, to making our own case? A practice which, by the way, inevitably results in dividing the world into the good and the bad, into “us” and “them.”
Politics

Some Things JD Vance Gets Right About the Economy

Vance is clearly not a traditional “business-first” Republican. He sounds more like one of the “Bernie Bros” of 2016 or 2020. He has said he finds common cause with them.
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