Marlena Proper Graves

Spirituality, Theology

Marlena Proper Graves is the author of A Beautiful Disaster: Finding Hope in the Midst of Brokenness, Who’s My Neighbor? Loving Our Neighbors as God Loves Us, and The Way Up is Down, as well as contributing author for a number of other books. She writes regularly for many venues including Christianity Today’s CT Women and Our Daily Bread and speaks frequently to students and congregations about spiritual formation.


Festival Years: 2014, 2016, 2018

Recommended Reading

A Beautiful Disaster