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Anthony B. Robinson

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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.
Religion

Questioning Your Diversity

And just as the Democrats have lost the working class, the non-college degreed, so too have liberal Protestants. That’s a big, but largely unacknowledged, factor in so-called “mainline decline.”
Education

The Great Divide: College Degrees

The percent of the population today who are college graduates is 33%, which means that 67% — the large majority — are not. “A college diploma has replaced income as the new marker of social class and key dividing line in our elections.
Elsewhere

On the Road Again (and why am I Sounding like Such a Curmudgeon?)

The upshot is that travel, like a lot of things in the land of the free and home of the brave is short on grace and graciousness.
Politics

Truth in Labeling: The Trump Voters

In the wake of the election, I’ve been trying to focus less on Trump himself (delegating that, so to speak, to a legion of others), and more on those who voted for him, many of them new in his camp as of this election.
Reflections

Revolt Against the Elites: Up and Down, Not Right and Left

Maybe that left/right framework is missing something. Maybe it even misses what’s really going on today.
Reflections

Understanding Trump Voters: Be Baffled? Or be Curious?

Instead of judging — labeling and dismissing — these voters, our fellow citizens, one might be curious. What motivated them? Why did some shift, if uneasily, from the party of their parents and grandparents?
Politics

So That Happened…

I suspect two aspects of Democratic strategy backfired. All the court cases against Trump only added to his image as a fighter against the establishment and hardened the loyalty of his base, maybe even enlarging it.
Politics

Don’t Buy the Substitute Religion of Politics

As America has become a more secularized society, politics has emerged as a "replacement" religion for more traditional religions.
blog

Election Puzzle: Crime Is Down but People Feel Unsafe

People aren’t feeling it because while certain types of violent crime are down, a different category — social disorder — is up. What falls under “social disorder”?
blog

Surprises From Our Walking Tour of Japan: Kyoto is a Big City

At a Zen Temple we visited there were several wonderful “dry fish pond gardens” with swept sand representing water. One had been created by a Japanese convert to Christianity who hid a cross in the design of the garden.
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