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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.
Religion

Naming Evil for What it Is

As a Christian, I see evil not as another cosmic force which we, the good people or good religion or right political party, must destroy so that peace is ushered in and life made right again.
International

You can be Anti-Hamas and Support Palestinians at the Same Time

Hamas is not identical with the Palestinian cause or its search for greater justice and peace for Palestinians living in Israel. And yet exactly that identification is being made by pro-Palestinian activists, demonstrators, and media here in the U.S.
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How Cities Become Degraded

I’ve been away from Seattle for a time this summer. On returning, one of the things that is noticeable is how bad actors enact a big toll on the rest of us. Here are some examples of things I noticed after my being gone for a couple months.
Religion

Why Ministers Quit

Ministry has to be something more than just doing a bunch of tasks. And that challenge is not limited to clergy. For all of us, life is full of tasks and can devolve into “one damn thing after another.” What gives the tasks deeper meaning?
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Keep the Faith. Know When it’s Time to go

It’s not just an individual problem when people hold on too long. It goes deeper. It betrays a lack of faith. Or a lack of faith in the future, of possibilities we cannot foresee, of people we do not yet know.
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Fighting the Last War: Time to Consider an Alternative to Biden?

We’re are not out of the Trumpian/MAGA woods yet. Thinking that Biden/Harris can do it again in 2024 may be wishful thinking.
Education

An Absence of Books: One Teen’s Lament about Today’s Education

Wisdom from a teen: Ruby’s five-part prescription for teenage happiness is a stirring protest against the ruling gods of contemporary culture: speed, competition, information, convenience, and self-absorption.
Reflections

In the Cultural Wars, Count Me a Conscientious Objector

Ever since Oliver Anthony’s song caught fire, the combatants in the culture wars have been trying to peg, box, claim, or deny Anthony and his song. So locked in to the culture war are its combatants that they cannot, apparently, conceive of someone who is not taking up arms.
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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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