Voices
Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, a columnist for The Bakersfield Californian and the author of Till the Moon Be No More: The Grit and Grace of Growing Older. She lives on the Oregon Coast.
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Do not ever let anyone say that sobriety is easy on a family: The return of a prodigal can spark consuming fires.
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We do not anticipate young mothers dying at a moment devoted to birth, and yet we know it happens. We know about death, and yet we are caught unawares by it.
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Since retiring from my job, my husband has found me irritating. We had a talk (after fighting), and he is right: I am mothering him. Smothering him. “I have a mother,” he said. “I want a wife, a partner, a best friend.”
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The most compelling reason not to execute the convicted is an existential one: We humans are not God.
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Like the men of Galilee present at the ascension of Jesus, we search the skies for unclouded meaning.
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The church needs our young people. But we elders cannot nurture them in the faith if we repel them.
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It is time for us to understand how this keeps happening and to stop it. We women are being called to shake things up.
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Like the apostles, we have been sent out two by two to proclaim the message of Jesus with our imperfect lives.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Pretrial freedom should not belong only to those who can purchase it.
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When we bargain with God, we espouse a God who keeps score, rather than the God who loves us no matter what.