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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.

Politics & SocietyShort Take
Valerie Schultz
Pretrial freedom should not belong only to those who can purchase it.
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FaithFaith in Focus
Valerie Schultz
When we bargain with God, we espouse a God who keeps score, rather than the God who loves us no matter what.
FaithLast Take
Valerie Schultz
There have been times when I have only held onto my Catholic faith by the smallest of fingernails. I am a doubter. I am a protester.
FaithLast Take
Valerie Schultz
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
Valerie Schultz
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
Valerie Schultz
May we repent as we worship at the altar of the gun, even to the point of sacrificing our own children.
FaithLast Take
Valerie Schultz
Your DNA is like a blueprint of your soul, which is another sacred thing that is not like anyone else’s in the world.
Photo by Jose A.Thompson on Unsplash.
FaithLast Take
Valerie Schultz
It is not just our eyes that become brittle and inflexible as we age. Our hearts can, too.
FaithLast Take
Valerie Schultz
Thanks to social media, thousands of stories of sexual harassment and sexual assault are going viral under the social media movement, #MeToo.
FaithLast Take
Valerie Schultz
I sensed God in the heightened awareness of my own mortality.