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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 and her husband Randy have four children and three grandchildren.
FaithScripture Reflections
A Reflection for Saturday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
FaithFaith in Focus
It may be a stretch to say that space made baby Boomers believe in God, but the possibilities and potential of space shaped us. The spirituality of space has stayed in our souls.
FaithScripture Reflections
A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
FaithScripture Reflections
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
FaithFaith in Focus
Walking the walk has always been my metaphor of choice for growing closer to God, for following the path to a sturdier faith, for keeping my feet on holy ground. Who am I if I am unable to walk?
FaithScripture Reflections
A Reflection for Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Valerie Schultz
FaithFaith in Focus
I feel qualified to tell everyone who has not attempted to nurse an infant to shut it.
FaithFaith in Focus
I’m afraid, but not of the virus. Frankly, I’m afraid of what I will see, of what I will hear when I get there and step inside the church.
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.