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Paul Graves

In March 2026, Paul will have completed 30 years as a faith/values writer, and he has plans to keep writing! After almost 37 years in Sandpoint, ID, Paul and his wife moved to Hillsboro, OR in March 2025, to be close to their son and family. They live in a retirement community, where Paul’s professional back as a retired United Methodist pastor and also a retired geriatric social worker, have been welcomed and are grist for the writing-mill on matters of spirituality, politics and aging.
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In Praise of Healthy Lament

I found myself consoling him by saying something like, “Your tears help your pain come out.” Never an easy cry-er myself, I rarely took my own advice.
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Can Peace-Making Include Protests?

People of faith, particularly Christians, seem to be conflicted about whether protests do any good, or even if protests are “Christian.”
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Gratitude: A Transformation, Not a Transaction

Did you ever consider that “gratitude” and “grace” come from the same root word? Gratia in Latin and Kharis in Greek.
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Doubt is the Faith That Colors Outside the Lines

Many of us lean on our certainty as a crutch to hold us up, afraid that to doubt what we believe will cause our entire belief systems to crash like a house of cards.
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Victims Are Not All The Same

From my perspective, those Capitol building invaders were victims of who-knows-what, victimizing democracy as they destroyed federal property, hurt people and hunted down elected officials.
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Jesus is Now Born! But Why?

God wants us to mature in our spiritual growth. That means we must let the baby Jesus grow up into the compassionate but revolutionary man the Gospels reveal him to be.
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When “It Matters” Doesn’t Seem To Matter

I thought our inalienable rights were to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” not anger and fear.
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