Anthony B. Robinson

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.

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.

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." 

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.

The Art of Banter

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

Tim Walz and the Politics of Grace

Walz argued that if voters aren’t buying what the Democrats are selling, that’s not on the voters.

A Crucial Choice for Kamala Harris: Get Beyond the Trump-Bashing

A columnist writes: “Looking anew at Harris, I see something different from what I once did: a person who stumbled as a candidate and vice president but who kept fighting anyway."

Notes on Backpacking with Goats

You're huffing an puffing and pushing your muscles for the joy of spectacular scenery and the absolute stillness of sunset on a glacial lake.

Democrats and the Necessity of Meeting the Moment

If we had imagined that one of the political parties would be in crisis, we would have had our sights fixed on the G.O.P.

Has God Endorsed Trump?

What could be better for the strongman image than surviving an assassination attempt with a bloodied face and clenched fist?

The “State of Emergency” That Evidently Isn’t?

The Democratic Party has long been telling us that a possible Trump Restoration constitutes a State of Emergency. But they don’t really mean that. It was, apparently, mostly just talk.

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