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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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Looking for the Soul of Christmas

I wonder if the Grinch story is so popular because it reminds its thoughtful readers that the soul of Christmas is, indeed, not where we look for it.
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Sourdough Starts a Legacy

Values-legacy is what we receive from persons in our lives who pass along values, attitudes and actions that help make us who we are. 
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Violence Meets a Whirlwind

A few Sundays ago, our pastor preached about God speaking to Job “out of a whirlwind” (Job 38:1-7). Why a whirlwind?
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Shame and Blame are Each a Cruel Game

I hope this read for you contributes to a wake-up call to better understand the power of “shame” and “blame.”
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But Where Is Home?

As I thought about your many transitions, I couldn’t help but reflect on our 2019 Sandpoint transition from our former house to our new house.
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Take a Risk: Live a Great Story

Great stories free us! Great stories move us to imagine beyond our petty self-preoccupations, beyond our living circumstances, beyond our destructive biases.
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A drought of our spirits

I believe we’re also wallowing in a cultural drought our country hasn’t seen in many decades. ​The drought shows itself in the aridness of social imagination and distorting selfishness that has settled in our souls.
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