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. If you would like to subscribe to Tony’s Substack blog you can do so at anthonybrobinson747.substack.com
Politics

Why I support the Millionaire Tax

Washington State really needs a complete overhaul of its taxation system. Depending on your point of view the Millionaires Tax is a down payment on such an overhaul, or it is the camel’s nose in the tent that will result in an income tax not just on the highest income citizens but on everyone.
Reflections

Remembering

Yesterday I led a memorial service for the daughter of friends; friends who had been members of a church I once served. Doing such a service is both a...
Politics

Trump: Oh Look, There’s a Squirrel!

Trump desperately needs a distraction from his last distraction, the war with Iran.
Environment

A Summer of Climate Change

Now we are busy adapting to a warmer climate. I have mixed feelings about that. While adapting is necessary, I wish we weren’t only applying adaptive band-aids.
Reflections

Broken Trust: The Profound Consequences of Moral Injury

The psychiatrist Jonathan Shay and his colleagues introduced the term “moral injury” in the 1990’s to describe the effects on others when there is a “betrayal of ‘what’s right’ in a...
Reflections

Can you Love America and Hate the Government?

The idea that you can love America and be a great patriot while being a know-nothing about our form of government or reflexively denouncing it is pretty much BS.
Cities

Only Suckers Pay?

Here’s my hunch about what links these various stories: we’ve become a nation and a city, where playing by the rules and obeying the law is “for suckers.”
Education

Pope Leo’s “Magnificent Humanity” Caution in the Age of AI

What dehumanizes us ultimately results from a misguided relationship to technology and economics — a ‘tendency to let the logic of efficiency, control and profit alone shape personal, social and economic life.’
Ideas

Maybe Not be an Activist?

“An activist is a soldier in a social or cultural war. A citizen is a member of a political community, a group of individuals who recognize that they have responsibilities to one another."
People

The King’s Speech

The King made important points without demeaning anyone. Members of the assembled body themselves appeared happy, even relaxed, as the King reaffirmed the historic ties between the United Kingdom and the U.S. without pretending the two nations have always been, or are today, on the same page in everything.
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