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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.
Health

My Reservations About Medically Assisted Dying

Being human has something to do with accepting our limits and finitude, that we aren’t really much in control, or at least as much as we’d like to think. It involves experiencing our shared vulnerability as mortals.
Reflections

Color me Awed

Yes, autumn is “in the air.” Its beauty, its colors, the feel of it — a kind of exhilarating tonic — quickening your pulse, the daylight shorter but somehow brighter.
Reflections

The Sounds of (Minneapolis) Silence

I find a different silence, the second silence, the silence that is “too deep for words,” to be where I go and what I need at such times.
Reflections

Radical Skepticism has Eaten Truth from the Inside

My point is not to launch a witch-hunt for post-modernists. It is to try to get a handle on how the view that there’s no truth, only power, and the posture of radical skepticism devolve into a cynicism that is corrosive to the soul and to society.
Politics

How did we get to this Dysfunction? Post-Modernism

According to this idea, there is no truth, not really. There is only power. There is no legitimate authority, only power. There are no objective facts, but only narratives that support or diminish one group’s power over others.
Politics

The Way to Beat Trump is not to Become Like Him

A prosocial agenda is about valuing social order, cooperation, and our common life together. I suspect that many Americans, as David Brooks suggests, are ready for a politics that builds up our common bonds rather than giving both implicit and explicit permission to the mean-spirited and vindictive.
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.
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