Don’t Confront Alexa!

The Rev. Paul Graves has an occasional practice of sharing a letter to his three grandchildren in his column for The Spokesman Review. In his most recent, he explores confrontation as a practical and spiritual matter.

Nurturing Elders: Practicing the Better

A young man was the subject of this story. But I have heard persons of all ages say virtually the same thing, and have to...

Silence has many faces

"As I watched immigrant children sitting silent in cages on our southern borders, I could only imagine what grief and fear their silence betrayed," writes the Rev. Paul Graves in a letter to his grandkids. In his message Graves considers the power of sacred silence, both in times where it is a reprieve to a noisy world and in moments where it is an alternative to a silence born in fear.

Nurturing Elders: Community Conversations Explore End-of-Life

Hourglass image courtesy of Wikipedia. For more info, click here. Nurturing Elders and Others: Community Conversations Explore End-of-Life By The Rev. Paul Graves • elderadvocates@nctv.com This...

Messy Church celebrates multi-generational relationships and discipleship

Messy Church celebrates multi-generational relationships and discipleship By Scott Klepach, Jr. There are scavenger hunts and painting crafts. Or, there are camp songs and googly-eyes But...

Nurturing Elders: Putting the You, Me, We into US

Nurturing Elders and Others: Putting the You, Me, We into US By Douglas Ferguson | Photos by Wikimedia Commons Editor’s note: Douglas Ferguson, a young adult within...

Housebreaking Ageism in the Church

Housebreaking Ageism in the Church | By the Rev. Paul Graves A few months ago, I invited us to consider naming the unidentified elephants that...

Hatching the Aging Heart

Nurturing Elders & Others Hatching the Aging Heart: Spiritual Break-Throughs by Geezers By the Rev. Paul Graves | Illustration by Jesse N. Love A few months before...

Seriously, Easter is too a joke

"Could it be that God invented the Resurrection of Jesus as a dramatic reminder for us that death, for all of its power to imprison us in our fears, will not be the end of Life? " In a letter to his grandchildren reflecting on the odd occasion of Easter and April Fool's day sharing a date on the calendar, Rev. Paul Graves makes the case that it is perfectly appropriate.

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...

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