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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.
Politics

Have Seattle Parks Become a Permanent “Solution” for Homelessness?

Seattle’s politics and our City Council mirror national trends of short-term thinking and using one’s office as a platform to draw attention and for self-promotion.
Impeachment 2

Why Watch a Trial that’s a Kangaroo Court?

Republican senators have made the trial a mockery of justice. Why be interested in a trial when the outcome is baked in before the opening gavel?
Elsewhere

Wintery Dispatches from Nez Perce Country

So, what do you do when dining outside in White Salmon at 29 degrees? Order Margaritas of course! Dinner was great.
People

Safety First: Why We’re so Preoccupied with it Now

Social media, Yuval Levin notes, intentionally blurs the lines between pubic and private, between inside (think “safe” inner circle) and outside (the whole damn world), as well as between formal (situations of some gravity and sensitivity in which restraint and decorum serve to protect us) and informality (let it all hang out).
Politics

Inauguration Theme: ‘We Have Been Humbled’

We were humbled on Inauguration Day by the need for so many troops and so much security, such that the Capitol was turned into a “fortress,” in the words of a news reporter. And, finally, we had been humbled by the Trump presidency itself, by how close we had come to a subversion of our institutions and of our collective sanity. Humbling has, however, had positive effects.
Religion

A “Christian Insurrection” at the Capitol?

Trump’s playbook bears remarkable similarity to Hitler’s in Germany. Hitler wasn’t really a Christian, nor is Trump. But both saw the church as either a potential ally or enemy and tried to enlist it, or neutralize it.
Insurrection

Trump’s “At Long Last” Moment

Protestors, egged on and incited by Trump, morphed into rioters as they launched their assault on the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon. I imagine some thought themselves heroes in one or another action movie as they scaled the west wall of the Capitol, flags flying.

What they achieved was a rare unification of Congress in condemnation of “thugs,” a word used by both Democrat, Chuck Schumer and Republican, Mitch McConnell. “Violence” was universally condemned. “Desecration,” was the other most common term. The temple of democracy had been desecrated. Note the religious language.
blog

A Year-End Message from an Owl that Calls Your Name

The native belief is that when a person hears an owl call their name, which the young vicar in the novel does in due course, it means you do not have long to live.
People

Lost Pleasures: The Art of Letter-writing

Reading a letter is more like savoring a fine wine, if your letter writer is at all good at the task, as is my letter-writing bro. Email is more like drinking your third cup of coffee. You’re already jittery and it doesn’t taste that good.
Politics

Seattle Nice, R.I.P.: Why are we so Awful to our Leaders?

Mayor Jenny Durkan deserves a thank-you note, at the very least, maybe even a purple heart.
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