Anthony B. Robinson

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.

How ‘The Prince of Lies’ Has Split and Infected Evangelical Churches

There is a demonic power that is at work in our country today. And at work in some “churches.”

Polarized Frenzy: Is There Room for the Moderate?

The immediate effect of the leak has been to ratchet our polarization higher and tighter — which may have the intent of the leak.

Doomism: The Fear of Feeling Futile

There’s no such thing as pass-fail when it comes to the climate crisis.

Russia’s War and a Struggle for Civilization

The war casts a sharp light on the fact that this is not for us only an external conflict. It is, and perhaps even more importantly, an internal conflict.

“If I Remain Silent, I am not a Priest”

“We don’t have to repeat mistakes of those Christians who supported the German government when they invaded Poland many years ago.”

Too Much of a Good Thing? How Over-consumption is Dulling our Happiness

The problem is that if you keep hitting the pleasure button too often, everything goes to shit. Not only that, but you need more of whatever it is you are pleasured by to get that sensation.

The Church of the Imperfects, the League of the Guilty

The church is not a gathering of the righteous, the perfect, those without fault or blemish, not to mention catastrophic failure. It is a gathering of those who know they stand in need of grace and mercy. It is a gathering of the “League of the Guilty.”

The Ukrainian Challenge to All of Us

In America, and particularly among its elites, we’ve been living for some time in what philosophers term post-modernity. One of the hallmarks of post-modern thought is the idea that there isn’t really anything that can be called truth, there is only power.

Of “Just” Wars and Moral Responsibilities

One of the problems with the just-war tradition for Americans is that America has overused it.

Uncomfortable Dance: The Religious Factor in the War in Ukraine

Orthodox Christianity is divided between Moscow and Istanbul, and the Ukrainian church is a key battleground and proxy.

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