Gentzler retiring as Center on Aging & Older Adult Ministries Director

Dr. Gentzler presents a session at Energizing Elderhood at Des Moines UMC in 2010. For more photos, click here. Gentzler retiring as Center on Aging...

Elders: Walls Hide Our Real Identities

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Learn more about this image, here. Nurturing Elders: Walls Hide Our Real Identities By the Rev. Paul Graves “We learned that to...

When the ordinary becomes art

By Rev. Paul Graves For his regular column in the Spokesman-Review, Rev. Paul Graves will occasionally use the format of a letter to his grandchildren....

Elders: When Jesus is the Question!?

Nurturing Elders and Others: When Jesus is the Question!? By The Rev. Paul Graves | Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons In a recent interview on National Public...

Did you ever feel like the time before Christmas is just upside-down?

By the Rev. Paul Graves Do you remember the lead-up to Christmas when you were a child? If you now have children, or grandchildren, or...

Nurturing Elders: BOOMERSTOCK 2016!

By the Rev. Paul Graves As I sat in one of the presentations about Boomers at Boomerstock, this famous refrain came to my mind: “Freedom’s...

Nurturing Elders: Watch out for multi-generational ageism!

During a meal at Annual Conference in Pasco, Sue and I sat down at a table where a 20’s-something young lady was sitting next...

Courage to create a politics worthy of the human spirit

"I don’t want to hate anybody, especially the political leaders I vehemently disagree with," writes the Rev. Paul Graves. Reflecting on a cultural climate "where it's hard not to hate," Graves suggests that our faith offers us a better path than hate or despair if we risk opening our hearts to the world around us.

Two different lenses of FEAR

Nurturing Elders and Others: We see best through two different lenses of fear By the Rev. Paul Graves Terrorism. Star-studded night. “Fear Factor” and “Survivor” reality TV....

Nurturing Elders: Prodigal Summer Memories

By the Rev. Paul Graves One of my favorite Biblical stories for decades has been The Prodigal Son parable. For a variety of reasons it...

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