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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.
Politics

The New Political Spectrum: Performative Extremists Versus the Rational Middle

The illiberal and un-conservative extremes are in the media driver's seat, garnering way more clout and air time than the actual numbers merit.
Reflections

Facing Into Your Mortality

It seems that the generation that worked back then to de-medicalize birth, is pushing for something similar for dying.
People

Why is the Left so Sad?

“I don’t know that it all ends badly. But I think it probably does,” seems unlikely to get you out of bed in morning. And yet, that seems to be where a fair number of those on the left, especially the younger ones, are hanging out these days.
Elsewhere

The Loneliness Epidemic

Here in San Miguel de Allende a mid-sized town in Central Mexico about the only people I see eating alone in a restaurant are fellow gringos; often they are older men, sometimes women. Mexicans generally seem to be part of a multi-generational family.
blog

Mexican Friday of Sorrows: A Feel for the Holy Week Story

People here feel comfortable mixing and matching, combining elements of the indigenous cultures, Aztec, Christian, and the secular without getting too uptight about it.
blog

Courtyards in Mexico: Magical Refuges for the Soul

I read that the courtyards of San Miguel have their roots in the Moorish gardens of ancient Spain, which were themselves inspired by the earlier courtyard gardens of even more ancient Persia. Paradise itself means "walled garden."
blog

Marilynne Robinson’s Deep Dive into Genesis

I had thought of the Bible as a book of heroes, stories of the especially virtuous and faithful, and as such both boring and untrue to life. Not so.
Politics

Linda Greenhouse: How The Supreme Court Got to Where it Is

In her formal talk, Greenhouse traced the evolution of the court to its present conservative “agenda,” and expressed apprehension over multiple aspects of that, particularly the Dobbs decision overturning Roe.
Politics

Surviving 2020: I Still Get PTSD

Was 2020 an apocalyptic year when the divisions that mark our nation hardened, and that the extremist scripts that we’ve lived with since have played out?
Religion

MAGA and the Souls of Evangelical Christians

They are motivated by fear. Which may be the most concise way to describe what’s truly sad and alarming about our country today: faith, which among other things means trust, now seems overmatched by fear.
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