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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.
Health

A COVID Parable: Two Sick People, One ICU Bed

Was the older man’s choice not to take the one available bed in ICU in some sense an act of forgiveness for the younger man if he chose not to be vaccinated or take pre-cautions? In the older man’s spot, what decision would I have made?
People

Post-COVID: Quality of Life and the Great Resignation

Post-pandemic shut-downs, many employers are having a hard time filling positions, even with several increases in pay. “The pandemic,” said one employee, “accelerated or accentuated all the feelings I’d had about work/life balance.”
Politics

Am I suffering from “Biden Bias”?

I do worry that the Biden administration has seemed to construe a narrow victory in 2020 and the slimmest of possible majorities in the House and Senate as a mandate to “go big.”
blog

What Happens When Your College Uncovers the Deep Dark History of its Namesake?

When we lack a story or theological world-view that allows us to see ourselves, and our forebears, more clearly and honestly, we tend to fall back on self-justification, pointing to our record of achievement and service.
blog

Those Spam Scammers Deserve a Special Kind of Hell

to be necessary for getting me “the refund to which I was entitled,” I thought “this is nuts . . . this is a scam . . . goodbye.”
blog

Better Off Than Ever and yet Unhappier

Like so many things, it strikes me that modern brain science is confirming what traditional and spiritual wisdom have long taught: moderation is wise. Fasting is a necessary complement to feasting. But we’re up against a culture and economy that tell us to indulge, to enjoy, and to feast all the time as we try to fill some deeper emptiness.
blog

Should Churches Continue On-Line Worship After the Pandemic?

For me, in-person worship, the worship of a gathered community, falls in the category of “burdens that we should not want to be rid of.”
International

The Long and Short Of Afghanistan

The twenty years of the war in Afghanistan were “America’s longest war.” Donald Trump labeled it “the forever war.” It was long and costly. But I suspect the Taliban saw it differently. Those twenty years weren’t, for them, long.
blog

The Efficiency Trap

Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder — won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because all else being equal, the demands will increase to offset the benefits.
Cities

Why Blue Cities are so Outrageously Unaffordable

Regulations may have come from a good place, but the result is to make building affordable housing or increasing density or accomplishing needed infrastructure projects all but impossible to pull off.
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