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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

How Worried Should We Be About Christian Nationalism?

Today, for example, many who self-identify as “Evangelical” do not attend a church nor are they biblically literate. Religion, as with Donald Trump, sanctifies a political agenda allowing authoritarian politicians to exploit religion language and people.
Religion

What’s Really Causing Our Epidemic of Gun Violence?

The unending shootings may drive us to despair — “nothing works,” “there’s nothing we can do.” That simply isn’t true.
Religion

“Getting” Jesus in the Super Bowl Ads

The overall Super Bowl extravaganza is entertainment, arguably the biggest show of them all. Does it work to sandwich Christianity in there?
Health

The Urge to Help: Getting out of the Problem/Solution Paradigm

Giving advice has a double-whammy. It can make the recipient feel even more alone (you’re “telling the person you don’t get it”), and, that it can also sound like judgment.
People

Has Identity Politics Had Its Day?

Solzhenitsyn and Havel were right. The Bible too. The line between good and evil passes through each human heart.
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The Rise of “Habitual Loneliness”

There is, it seems likely, some correlation between “wandering alone,” and “relationships severed and never reestablished” and church decline. 
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Reflecting on a Larger Culture of Tradition and Manners

Paul Theroux writes: "I think of myself in the Mexican way, not as an old man but as most Mexicans regard a senior, an hombre de juicio, a man of judgment."
Politics

The Party’s Over: When Your Tribe Leaves You

My hunch is that the experience of being adrift, cut off from one’s moorings, is far broader than the fate of the Republican Party and those who once found a home in it.
People

Why We Are Angry: The Dangers of Relentless Happy-Talk

I blame this anger on The Great Disjunction, by which I mean the yawning abyss between the world as narrated to us by public relations, advertising, and the imagery of consumerism, and our actual reality.
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Keys to Success? The Liberation of Low Anthropology

A more realistic assessment of the human condition leads to compassion not only toward others but toward yourself.
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