Scott Robinson
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It had been public and it had been embarrassing. The very, very loud music from the stage, the laughter and sing-along and general buzz...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 29, 20202 min read
The Long Flirt
Boys flirt. Grown-Ass Men flirt, too, but they know the difference between boy flirting and Grown-Ass Man flirting. Boys flirt in the...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 25, 20205 min read
Heaven on Earth
Yesterday we said goodbye to my new daughter’s mother. She had died the previous week, not unexpectedly, and my son’s new wife was...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 25, 20203 min read
The Woman Coping
When I met her, she was busy and full of life. When I met her, she was involved in many things – causes, crusades, committees, and a...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 12, 20204 min read
The Turkey Bacon of Music
So... It started with Evie, more or less, in the early Seventies. Others had come before – singer/songwriter Larry Norman, notably – and...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 9, 20204 min read
Splitsville
In the days before megachurches like Southeast Christian were a thing, there was a phenomenon that persists today but was more frequent...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 9, 20205 min read
Christian Cognitive Clusters
Part of my day job is parsing the human brain, as it is specifically applied to social thinking, group dynamics and communication. To...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 7, 20204 min read
Published!
I shared earlier that my mom had cultivated in me an interest in creative self-investment. Little did I know at the time just now rapidly...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 6, 20203 min read
Barry, Billy, and Elton
My parents had eased up on the whole rock music thing, to the point where by my junior year of high school it was a distant memory. I had...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 5, 20203 min read
The Closet Scientist
It was largely Star Trek that focused my mind on science and reason, starting around 1972 – but it was the World Book Encyclopedia that...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 5, 20203 min read
WLS Chicago
The Boys Club near Water Street and George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” were a start, music-wise; but it was when we moved out of the town...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 4, 20205 min read
The Neighborhood
Here’s one of the happiest pieces of the past for me. When we lived in Lexington, we were nestled in a quiet, very peaceful post-war...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 1, 20204 min read
Cousins
My Fundamentalist youth began, of course, the day I was born, at Kentucky Baptist Hospital in Louisville, to Fundamentalist parents –...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 1, 20204 min read
Woman Watching
Men notice women. Women notice men. We’re wired to notice the opposite sex, and to experience attraction when we do. We couldn’t shut it...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 31, 20204 min read
Dad's Guitar
In 1970, our family lived in East Point, Georgia, a community ironically to the west of Atlanta. My father had taken what would end up...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 30, 20205 min read
Jesus Woodstock
(Photo courtesy of Bill Roberts) Back to the summer of 1971. For reasons I was never clear on, I was on my first just-me-and-Dad trip...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 29, 20206 min read
ReachOut House
My dad’s church camp dean thing was only one expression of his propensity for youth ministry. Still just early thirtysomething himself,...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 27, 20205 min read
The Magic Man
It’s the summer of 1971. We now live in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in a very old house on Water Street, built almost a century earlier. Up...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 22, 20204 min read
My Actual Church
My ultimate fate was decided on the night of October 27, 1967. How do I remember that so precisely? It’s right there in Wikipedia,...
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Scott Robinson
Aug 22, 20206 min read
Rapture Terror
The idea of the “End Times”, that era of human history either directly before or directly after the Second Coming of Christ (depending on...
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