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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.
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Time to Lower the Heat in the Post-Roe Commentary

If the SCOTUS decision is the beginning, not the end, of the debate, we will need a lot more thoughtful commentary. Here are some examples.
Elsewhere

Is America Falling Behind?

Visiting our near neighbor reminds this on-edge American that it really doesn’t have to be this way.
Politics

Gun Ownership Rates Do Not Correlate with Gun Violence

Americans own 120 guns per 100 people. No other nation comes close. But there are many nations with higher homicide rates, including nations with small fractions of America’s rate of gun ownership.
People

The Problem with “Golden Age” Myths: Time for the Old People to Move Aside

Somehow the narrative of 1950s America, refracted through the prism of westerns, became the norm for “the real America.” As such, it has a hold on us that may be crippling.
Elsewhere

Remembering: No Innocence

It’s not that there haven’t been murders, tragedies and hideous injustices in the past. There have. But were they so “normalized” as they seem now to be?
Religion

Of Victim Narratives and Radical Honesty

Seeing ourselves only as helpless victims is seldom true and never helpful. Accepting responsibility is actually empowering.
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Mass Shootings: Something Important has Changed

If something has changed in the terrible evil of these mass shooting and gun violence — a move from the psychologically troubled to the politically/racially motivated and radicalized — something hasn’t changed at all.
Religion

How ‘The Prince of Lies’ Has Split and Infected Evangelical Churches

There is a demonic power that is at work in our country today. And at work in some “churches.”
blog

Polarized Frenzy: Is There Room for the Moderate?

The immediate effect of the leak has been to ratchet our polarization higher and tighter — which may have the intent of the leak.
blog

Doomism: The Fear of Feeling Futile

There’s no such thing as pass-fail when it comes to the climate crisis.
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