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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.
FaithLast Take
Every year, my sister and I take the anniversary of each of our parents’ deaths off and spend it together. We go to the cemetery and to Mass, and gather the memories and the mourning into our arms and hearts for one more year.
FaithLast Take
Many of us have learned the hard way that “L.G.B.T.” is a trigger for some Catholics to become very un-Christian.
FaithLast Take
May we repent as we worship at the altar of the gun, even to the point of sacrificing our own children.
FaithLast Take
Your DNA is like a blueprint of your soul, which is another sacred thing that is not like anyone else’s in the world.
FaithLast Take
It is not just our eyes that become brittle and inflexible as we age. Our hearts can, too.
FaithLast Take
Thanks to social media, thousands of stories of sexual harassment and sexual assault are going viral under the social media movement, #MeToo.
FaithLast Take
I sensed God in the heightened awareness of my own mortality.
FaithLast Take
For inmates, incarceration is their punishment. But in the library, we focus on rehabilitation.
FaithFaith in Focus
One day we may see one of their bylines in The New Yorker. One day these men will be released from prison.
FaithIn All Things
While the church relies on volunteers in many instances, certain jobs require extensive training, which must be compensated.