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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.
Books

An Irish Novel Discovers Happiness Lurking in a Small, Rainy Town

Williams offers a different vision and a different definition of “happiness.” Not so much something we get, as something we are given. Given in the midst of life’s on-goingness, its incompleteness and trials.
Reflections

As our Social Order Frays, Dems Need A Better Argument

If liberals are going to effectively answer the Trumpist challenge, as I hope we will, it will involve a new appreciation for what David Brooks terms “the secure container” and for the costs of social disorder.
Books

Ross Douthat asks Why Everybody isn’t Religious

He is, for my money, correctly diagnosing the anomie and nihilism of our time. We are less threatened by repressive religious orthodoxies than by indifference, isolation, and crippling self-preoccupation.
Religion

Should Churches be in the Business of Endorsing Political Candidates?

Churches cannot — should not — ignore the moral and theological issues at stake in politics. But their teaching should be directed toward what light their faith and tradition shed on issues, not on telling people what to think or whom to vote for.
Journalism

Why NPR Lost its Federal Funding

Something changed somewhere along the way. The stories highlighted and the perspective taken by NPR became predictable, repetitive, and tedious.
blog

Death of the Public Library? Who Are Those Masked Men? And will AI Take my Job?

During the day much of the seating is occupied by homeless people who, yes, have a right to use the library, but not to use it as a shelter. My own usage of the Ballard library has gone down because of this, making me part of a national trend.
Religion

On Leadership

Sometimes seminaries instill in their graduates a certain condescension toward the church and churches.
Religion

A Prayer for Our Tinderbox Times, on this Fourth of July

A call to practice reconciliation is challenging. It will be met with a charge, from many, of “both-siderism.”
Religion

Do Churches need to put Better Teams on the Field?

As tough as it is to say that maybe we haven’t been fielding very good teams for quite a while, there’s an upside to it. If it’s at least partly on us, then maybe we can do something about it?
Religion

Is Christianity Mostly About “Doing Good”?

I tend, with Augustine and Niebuhr, to be a little skeptical about what we humans confidently declare as “good works.” Sometimes we are overly sure of our own goodness and of the goodness of our “good works.”
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