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Paul Graves

Paul Graves is a retired and re-focused United Methodist pastor and a long-time resident of Sandpoint, Idaho, where he formerly served on city council and mayor. His second career is in geriatric social work, and since 2005 he's been the Lead Geezer-in-Training of Elder Advocates, a consulting and teaching ministry on aging issues. Since 1992, Graves has been a volunteer chaplain for Bonner Community Hospice. His columns regularly appear in The Spokesman-Review's Faith and Values section, and he also writes the Dear Geezer column for the Bonner County Daily Bee and is the host of the bi-weekly Geezer Forum on aging issues in Sandpoint.
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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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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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