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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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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.
HT Debate

Harris’ Decisive Win over a Bully

Most of the time Trump had on the face that he wore in the New York courtroom this spring. Defiant to be sure, but so very dark, so very menacing.
People

The Importance of a Good Contrarian

Here are several items I came across in my reading this week that I commend to your attention. There’s a theme that links all these together: the dangers of...
People

The Anxious Generation: The Language of Therapy isn’t Cutting It

When psychological and therapeutic language are asked to do double-duty as our primary moral framework, it falls short.
Religion

Scots-Irish: Trying to Explain JD Vance

They acquired a reputation as combative, loyal to kin and distrustful of government, characteristics that were highlighted in U.S. Senator Jim Webb’s 2004 book about the Scots-Irish, "Born Fighting." 
blog

Waning Summer in the Wallowas

Most all liberal theology is “natural theology,” which has left the church with too little to say about God’s nature and purposes.
People

The Art of Banter

Banter, which lightens life and friendship, has gotten a bad reputation. Beware Banter!
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