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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

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.
blog

Wakeup Call: Will Putin’s Invasion Convince us of the Stakes?

So much of our national life and debate has been self-indulgent, stupid, and dangerous for so long. Can Putin do what the pandemic could not and wake us up?
blog

Lost Boys: “We Lose Enough of our Young Men”

From a new novel set in Ireland: "Young men don’t know what to be doing with themselves at all."
2022 Mayor's State of the City

Inclusive to a Fault and Signifying Little

One of the useful leadership and planning tools that I stumbled upon over the years was the concept of “the vital few.” What are the vital few things that an organization, business or institution must do and do well if it is going to accomplish its mission and thrive?
Religion

In Apocalypse, all is Revealed: Lessons from COVID (and the Olympics)

The virus has done what viruses do — take advantage of the vulnerabilities of an unhealthy host. It is this that has been revealed, or “apocalypsed” to us.
Religion

Digitized Worship, a Blessing for a Time, Is Now a Threat to Churches

Will the church go with the increasingly digitized modern, or post-modern world, where more and more of our interactions are disembodied and distanced?
blog

Department of Stupid Questions: Why is Russia-Ukraine Mostly About the U.S.?

Why isn’t this first of all a Russia/Ukraine problem or stand-off or crisis? These two nations appear to be the ones on the front-line, the ones with the most to lose.
blog

Why Tara Henley, a Liberal Newsie, Asks: What Is Going on at the CBC?

"To work at the CBC in the current climate is to embrace cognitive dissonance and to abandon journalistic integrity. It is to sign on, enthusiastically, to a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions."
Politics

Hey Democrats! You’re Going About Fighting Threats to Democracy in the Wrong Way

The risk the Democrats are running is not only that they are putting the emphasis on the wrong leg of the three-legged stool of elections, but that they will be perceived as trying to control the electoral process from the top-down, through federal legislation.
Books

Jonathan Franzen’s New Novel and the Unsuspected Down-Turning of the 1970s

It is, in retrospect, as if we came to a crossroads in our nation’s life. One way leads to life as we had known it. Another way is marked “Here be Dragons.”
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