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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.
Religion

In Apocalypse, all is Revealed: Lessons from COVID (and the Olympics)

The virus has done what viruses do — take advantage of the vulnerabilities of an unhealthy host. It is this that has been revealed, or “apocalypsed” to us.
Religion

Digitized Worship, a Blessing for a Time, Is Now a Threat to Churches

Will the church go with the increasingly digitized modern, or post-modern world, where more and more of our interactions are disembodied and distanced?
blog

Department of Stupid Questions: Why is Russia-Ukraine Mostly About the U.S.?

Why isn’t this first of all a Russia/Ukraine problem or stand-off or crisis? These two nations appear to be the ones on the front-line, the ones with the most to lose.
blog

Why Tara Henley, a Liberal Newsie, Asks: What Is Going on at the CBC?

"To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity. It is to sign on, enthusiastically, to a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions."
Politics

Hey Democrats! You’re Going About Fighting Threats to Democracy in the Wrong Way

The risk the Democrats are running is not only that they are putting the emphasis on the wrong leg of the three-legged stool of elections, but that they will be perceived as trying to control the electoral process from the top-down, through federal legislation.
Books

Jonathan Franzen’s New Novel and the Unsuspected Down-Turning of the 1970s

It is, in retrospect, as if we came to a crossroads in our nation’s life. One way leads to life as we had known it. Another way is marked “Here be Dragons.”
Religion

Mind the Gap: The Case for “Mediating Institutions”

Libertarians tend to emphasize the role of “mediating institutions” as a bulwark against the state. But I think they also serve, and perhaps are even more needed, as a bulwark against very large, concentrated, global corporations.
Religion

Why Young People are Leaving the Evangelical Church

What if people don’t leave the church because they disapprove of Jesus, but because they’ve read the Bible and have come to the conclusion that the church itself would disapprove of Jesus? That’s a crisis.”
blog

What, Me Happy?

Yuval Levin writes: “A fuller understanding of flourishing would see it as achievable not by a proper sequencing of solitary choices but by a proper layering of embedded commitments to others."
Religion

When Bigger isn’t Better: Welcome Back the Mini-Church

While small congregations can fight an inferiority complex, the truth is they can and are doing real ministry even if they are small, maybe because they are small.
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