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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.
Environment

Finding Hope as the Climate Changes

While Katharine Hayhoe is clear about the dangers of a warming planet she achieves what her subtitle promises, offering hope and healing in a divided world.
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On the Ballot in Rural Oregon: Do We Want to Be Annexed by Idaho?

My guess is that many of Greater Idaho folks would rather be in a red state than a blue one. Apparently, there are now realtors who specialize in relocating people to a state of their political preference. I mean why rub elbows with people you don’t agree with?
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After 54 Years: It’s the Other Things

Letting your partner be other, not requiring they be the same as you, is a big challenge in a marriage.
Politics

The “Grandiosity Test”: Is Your Government more about Big Ideas than Making Things Work?

The progressive social critique of patriarchy, systemic racism, the history of policing and capitalism — which has some truth in it — is so broad-scale that it overwhelms more modest efforts to make progress..
Religion

Scared Straight? A Tectonic Shift in American Values

I think these shifts portray a country/society where people are really frightened. All of the things that trend down — love of country, religious faith, having kids, and community involvement — involve some, often quite significant, level of trust.
Technology

Needed: Intelligence of the Non-Artificial Kind

Some of the debate is on the order of “should we go ahead with AI?” which suggests there is a choice in the matter. There isn’t. AI is here, though its incarnations are probably far more diverse than the single term “AI” would suggest.
Health

The Wellness Industrial Complex — A Cure for Everything?

Instead of asking what’s wrong in a culture that is making so many feel over-stressed and over-burdened, “we’re told we can shop ourselves out of it.”
People

Crying Wolf: The New Resume-Booster?

There are increasing stories of people pretending to be victims of one sort or another in order to gain acceptance, status, financial benefit or to claim to the moral high ground.
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Two Cheers for Seattle Bureaucracy!

I'm happy to recount two stories of the City of Seattle heeding and responding to citizen requests, interest and involvement.
Books

Living in a Defensive Crouch: Abundance Versus Adventure

"Each of us must discover the adventure that is a human life—the epic adventures of high risk and innovation but also the everyday adventures of love and marriage, of family, of childhood innocence, of being young in a land where the future is a wide frontier."
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