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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.
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Hamas and the Dangerous Politics of Extremism

There is here an urgent warning to the U.S. about what happens when extremists are empowered and manage to gain control of the public debate.
Reflections

A Curmudgeon’s Guide to 2024 — Optimist Edition

I keep in mind a warning from an elderly friend: “At my age,” he confessed, “it becomes all-too-easy to join the ‘ain’t it awful club.' That is, 'No one is getting it right. Everything is in decline.'”
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“The Boys in the Boat” and a Time of Heroic Men

These were the kind of male role models I grew up with, which boys of my generation were to emulate. One doesn’t see many of these today.
Reflections

The Privilege of Complaining About Motherhood

"Despite ubiquitous depictions of moms on the verge of collapse, only a third in a Pew poll said parenting was stressful all or most of the time. The data was a far cry from a miserable portrait.” Why do we privilege the grim narratives?
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The Week That Was

As I have written here before, framing everything in terms of the oppressor/oppressed binary is a dangerous game to play, now coming back to haunt progressives.
Arts

Dazzled and Awestruck: Music Making Meaning

The parents, each holding their own little cellphone camera light in the darkness, stood dazzled and awe-struck by what their progeny were managing to pull off.
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Taking a Step Back: Trying to Make Sense of “Critical Theory”

For CRT, it’s all about, and only about, power. This results in some pretty reductive readings. Don’t bother reading the Bible for truth about God. It’s all about the social construction of power. Same for Shakespeare, and God help “the canon of western literature.”
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Broken Covenant: The Wealthy as Unfavorable Presence

"Today’s rich, their wealth largely preserved through the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic, have opposed reforms aimed at tapping their resources to fund mitigation policies of all kinds. This is a historically exceptional development."
Reflections

DEI and Reconsidering the Power Paradigm

When DEI and the language of privilege become an ideology requiring creedal assent, they betray their own cause and mirror the prejudices they would undo.
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Moving Toward a Post-Denominational Church

Church denominations, per se, aren’t running what is arguably the single biggest effort in a generation to reframe and strengthen leadership development for the Christian churches in North America.
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