Anthony B. Robinson
Author and UCC minister
Anthony B. Robinson is an author, teacher, speaker and consultant, and an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. He has taught at various schools including Seattle University, Seattle Pacific University, the Toronto School of Theology and the Vancouver School of Theology. His ten books include "Transforming Congregational Culture" (Eerdmans, 2003), "What's Theology Got to Do with It?" (Alban, 2006), and "Changing the Conversation: A Third Way for Congregations" (Eerdmans, 2008).
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Anthony B. Robinson: The decline of interim pastorates
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A pastoral leadership succession model may fit the current church culture better.
Anthony B. Robinson: The ‘Ain’t It Awful Club'
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It’s satisfying to kvetch. It’s wiser to mourn and pitch back in.
Anthony B. Robinson: Second thoughts on mission statements
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Don’t use a mission-writing process to avoid the hard work of responding to the new thing God is calling you to do right now.
Anthony B. Robinson: David Brooks as public theologian
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Where has the spirit of Niebuhr gone? Into David Brooks, that’s where.
Anthony B. Robinson: Motivating change
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Trying to scare or force organizations to change doesn’t work. What does?
Anthony B. Robinson: Lessons from GM's failure. And scripture.
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Paul Ingrassia’s new book shows us what we should already have known. And models how to write plainly.
Anthony B. Robinson: Does God take sides?
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A generation is coming that is sick of our generation-long culture wars. Maybe we can finally give up adjectives in front of churches.
Anthony B. Robinson: Denominations can learn from education reform
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What about denominations getting focused on what makes for a healthy, vital church, and creating systems of support and accountability to move congregations in that direction?
Anthony B. Robinson: The pastor (and Jesus) as cage-fighter
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Maybe the new, counter-intuitive formula for church growth is this: be a stark alternative to whatever the dominant culture offers.
Anthony B. Robinson: Quit thinking of the church as a family
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The church is in the business of changing lives. The family is not.
Anthony B. Robinson: Leaders are stewards of a (hopefully clear) mission
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What do we do when a sense of mission is elusive, ignored, too much about us and not enough about God, or opposed by a small but vocal power bloc?
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