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
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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...