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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.
Impeachment

Pass Me The Subpoena Colada! And an Essay Book.

While incarcerated McDowell has been given a writing assignment by the judge. He is to write four essays on the following topics: “Finding Meaning in Life Other Than Committing Crimes,” “Principles of the Declaration of Independence and How Your Behavior Undermines Them,” “Importance of Respecting the Rule of Law,” and “Importance of Respecting Property Rights.”
2020 Debates

Dem Debates: The Leftward-Ho March Is Slowing

And Joe? God bless him. He must be related to George W. Bush. The English language is not, apparently, his native tongue.
People

‘Unhappy the Land That Needs Heroes’

Leadership expert Ron Heifetz is fond of saying, “Leadership is disappointing people at a rate they can stand.”
Politics

Reflections on Seattle’s North-South Divide After a City Council Debate

My own take is that the “North gets more, South gets less” is bunk. My non-scientific impressionistic view, based on living in both, is that there were more community centers, parks, recreation facilities, public transit, and so on in the South End than up here in the north.
Politics

Three Major Misgivings About Impeaching Trump

Impeachment won’t move anyone out of their tribal camps. It will cause those already encamped to dig in more deeply, while those not in one camp or another pay even less attention.
2020 Debates

Democrats’ Debate: Let a Little Sunshine In

The best thing you can say about Julian Castro’s taunting of Joe Biden about “forgetting what he had just said” (which he hadn’t) is that it is good preparation...
Politics

Exploring the Guns-Race Connection

It’s no wonder that gun rights, racism, white nationalism and issues of masculinity continue to swirl together in a toxic brew.
blog

Why the saga of Chief Joseph still haunts our region

I recently finished Daniel Sharfstein’s magisterial 2017 work, Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War. Sharfstein, a professor of history and law at Vanderbilt,...
blog

Trump’s Evil Genius

Trump’s evil genius has been on full display of late. On one level his attacks on the four members of Congress known as the Squad has been racist. The...
blog

How to make political change digestible

Several anti-Trump moderate-to-conservatives followed up on the Democratic Party Debates last month by worrying that the Democrats had let themselves be pushed too far to the left in their...
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