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Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, a columnist for The Bakersfield Californian and the author of A Hill of Beans: The Grace of Everyday Troubles. She lives on the Oregon Coast.
FaithLent Reflections
A Reflection for the Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent, by Valerie Schultz
Politics & SocietyFaith in Focus
Where else would we have listened to each other this way? Not online these days. Not at a school board meeting. Not at a political debate. Not at a family gathering. Not even in church.
FaithAdvent Reflections
A Reflection for Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
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Here is a way to show how much you really love your children: Do the paperwork.
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I have found that there’s more to life than work. That I am replaceable in my job but urgently needed in other roles and relationships in my life.
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The ever-present political talk of who is a good enough Catholic, or who should or should not receive Communion, hits close to home.
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Sex with someone you know and love is deeply satisfying. At our age it may not be as athletic or as frequent, but it is fulfilling. It is affirming. And it is fun.
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My parents never told me this, but parenting adults is hard.
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The Holy Innocents of today continue to arrive and ask for our help. The way we welcome them or neglect them tells the story of who we are.
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Our task now, after we have defaced our neighbors’ political signs and posted undignified invectives online, is to figure out how to be more neighborly to one another.