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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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Disaffection of the Sexes: Flirting on a Fraught Field

The contemporary male/female landscape doesn’t look like a romantic scene of a summer field of daisies with a young couple walking hand-in-hand in the sunlight. It looks a little more like a mined battlefield with people moving very cautiously, if they move at all.
Books

The New Hillbilly Elegy: Barbara Kingsolver Explains it All to You

Kingsolver says that people in rural America, where she was raised and lives today, “are so mad they want to blow everything up.” She gives some reasons, mainly the shame that urban America cast upon Appalachia and its people.
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@75: Nothing Left to Prove

It is an age that seems to come with a certain amount of relaxed interest in life and acceptance of ourselves. As I said, “Nothing left to prove . . .”
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Self-Optimized? No Time for Church

There just isn’t time or energy for church. People in my generation say something like this about their adult children. “They’re so busy.” While that may be true, busyness is not so much the root of the problem as a symptom of it. Work has expanded to fill more and more of our lives. Yet even pointing to “Workism” may not go deep enough.
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Has Trump Gone Stale? And a Few Other Observations

Personally, I’m okay with not looking for a messiah in politics. Political messiahs tend to be, at best, disappointing, and at worst, they morph into dictators. So Biden is boring.
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Et Tu, Tony? Finding Lessons in the new Barbie Movie

Gerwig’s Barbie movie is offering young girls and women just about the opposite of what social media hits them with, which is a relentless wave of anxiety about whatever they are not.
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Getting Connected: Small Town Lifeline

There is something to be said for all these mingled connections, for neighbors who know and depend on one another, and for kids growing up in the midst of a thick community, with a sense of place.
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How a Small Town Saved a Historic Lodge and Helped Restore the Land

From the '50s through at least the '70s it was popular to “channelize” rivers up here in Northwest Oregon, meaning use a bulldozer to cut one deeper, straight channel to reduce high-water flooding. But that came at a cost to natural and fish habitat.
Religion

Choosing Church: The Odds Against are Many

Jessica Grose says that what churches offer that people aren’t finding elsewhere is a “ready-made supportive community.” But here’s the thing. “Ready-made supportive community,” doesn’t just happen. Such a community asks things of people.
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Daddy Issues

Dave, the workshop presenter, said that “rejection — at some level — is at the heart of all the father issues. The feeling that you are never good enough.” There probably was that, but I think both my parents had that going on. With my Dad it was more the sense that we just didn’t have that much in common, and between that and his work, not much shared experience.
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