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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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Seriously, The Comics Can Be Healing

Now I see comics and cartoons as often healthy reminders that our world is not only a tragic place, but also a very funny place.
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Vote: It’s about power, conscience and consequence

Your vote may or may not matter in the final vote tally, but it can always matter to your sense of power, conscience and consequence.
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Is Retribution a Christian Value?

My sadness pushes me to explore where this spirit of retribution might find its foothold. Are retribution and retaliation Christian values? Absolutely not!
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We can hurt God? Certainly.

I think we all hurt God in countless ways as we provoke divisions in our close relationships, spew caustic comments offered unthinkingly to a total stranger, be silent in the face of injustice.
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Humility, Courage and Confronting Racism

When it comes to the hot and hostile topic of racism, how can I talk so another person will listen? Maybe more importantly, how can I listen so another person will talk?
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2020 Unmasked: Blessing and Burden

Yet, in the midst of this very understandable need to mask ourselves, I’m here to affirm that 2020 is a time to UNMASK ourselves! Embrace the blessings and burdens that unmasking reveals!
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Getting Unstuck Takes Some Effort

Is the pandemic the reason you feel stuck? Or did your feeling stuck begin before we were asked to shelter-in-place?
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