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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.
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
Easter thoughts from the secular press http www bakersfieldcalifornian com lifestyle local x1538235657 Easter-is-dawn-to-a-new-season-of-hope nbsp
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
I went to evening Mass with a heavy heart having spent the greater part of Saturday at a memorial service for an old friend He was a fourth grade teacher who had taught two of our four children but more than that he was one of my husband rsquo s dearest friends and practically a part of our fam
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
nbsp A Christmas column from the Faith section of The Bakersfield Californian http www bakersfield com news columnist schultz x1797587210 Christ-was-born-one-of-us Valerie Schultz nbsp
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
One of the self-help groups I work with in a state prison is called lsquo Celebrate Recovery rsquo It rsquo s a sort of 12-Steps-for-Jesus approach to kicking addictions The framework resembles what the non-denominational Alcoholics Anonymous might look like had AA been founded by a couple of gu
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
Thinking I had to steel myself for the changes looming for the first Sunday of Advent was God rsquo s joke on me because the priest who presided over the Saturday evening Mass I just attended for the feast of Christ the King decided to go with the new translation one week early Glossy brochures in
Valerie Schultz
My adult children are kind, smart and justice-oriented. But they are not practicing Catholics.
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
nbsp I am privileged to be a staff sponsor at a state prison for the self-help 12-step groups of AA and NA A staff sponsor is different from a program sponsor I am not a recovering alcoholic or addict who has a one-on-one relationship with another alcoholic or addict in order to facilitate work
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp In March I made my yearly pilgrimage to Anaheim not to Disneyland but to the Catholic Religious Education Congress sponsored by the Los Angeles Archdiocese where I am always provoked and energized by the workshops offered I am sti
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
With apologies to the writers of ldquo Late Night with David Letterman rdquo Right now is not an easy time to be Catholic But is it ever easy I sometimes speculate that it might be simpler to be Protestant Protestants are allowed to go church shopping and they don rsquo t even have to go to a
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
My husband and I recently attended the Bat Mitzvah of a dear friend rsquo s daughter Our daughters are all adults but our friend from college days married a younger woman and so his oldest child is just becoming a teenager His lovely wife is Jewish which explains why a friend from a Catholic un