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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.
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What the Devil Explains Trump?

By and large, mainline and liberal Christians stopped crediting the devil or the demonic a couple generations ago. For that crowd — my crowd — there were only two actors on the cosmic stage: God and the human being.
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Trump Versus the Military — I Just Don’t Get It.

What don’t I get? How anyone can think Trump — or anyone who says such things or holds such views — is fit to return to office as President and Commander-in-Chief.
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In Search of Grace: The Korean Series “Navillera”

"Navillera" like "Ted Lasso," gives us a different take on ourselves and our world. Less the battlefield of contemporary life and politics and more the hospital, where everyone is in some way broken and in need of help and healing.
Religion

Ways to Address the Decline of Mainline Churches

A better word for us than “mainline” was “sideline.” We had the problem of all established groups, that is, we thought we had no problems and that our future was secure.
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Hamas and the Dangerous Politics of Extremism

There is here an urgent warning to the U.S. about what happens when extremists are empowered and manage to gain control of the public debate.
Reflections

A Curmudgeon’s Guide to 2024 — Optimist Edition

I keep in mind a warning from an elderly friend: “At my age,” he confessed, “it becomes all-too-easy to join the ‘ain’t it awful club.' That is, 'No one is getting it right. Everything is in decline.'”
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“The Boys in the Boat” and a Time of Heroic Men

These were the kind of male role models I grew up with, which boys of my generation were to emulate. One doesn’t see many of these today.
Reflections

The Privilege of Complaining About Motherhood

"Despite ubiquitous depictions of moms on the verge of collapse, only a third in a Pew poll said parenting was stressful all or most of the time. The data was a far cry from a miserable portrait.” Why do we privilege the grim narratives?
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The Week That Was

As I have written here before, framing everything in terms of the oppressor/oppressed binary is a dangerous game to play, now coming back to haunt progressives.
Arts

Dazzled and Awestruck: Music Making Meaning

The parents, each holding their own little cellphone camera light in the darkness, stood dazzled and awe-struck by what their progeny were managing to pull off.
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