Consistent Life News
Issue #6
Summer 2006
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Coming on Board:

Julie Shockley

Julie Shockley joined the Consistent Life Board of Directors in January. She agreed to serve as Secretary-Treasurer, filling a vacant Treasurer’s post and replacing longtime Secretary Rose Evans, who asked to curtail her duties due to declining health Rose will graciously continue to serve Consistent Life on the Board of Directors.

Julie’s personal pro-life ministry investigates the physical, psychological, and spiritual devastation of abortion at www.AbortionHurts.com. She earned her B.A. in psychology from Arizona State University in 1991, and has over twenty years of experience working in private and public accounting. Julie currently lives in Jackson TN.

Rachel Muha

Rachel Muha who just joined our board this July, is from Cleveland OH and received her degree from Ohio State University; She is married and the mother of two sons, Chris (just graduated from Yale Law School) and Brian. She also has a Catechetical diploma from the Catholic Distance University; has held various positions in local and state Right to Life organizations; founded Christifideles (children’s group, later evolved into home school group and now independent school); and founded The Brian Muha Memorial Foundation. Her primary work currently is to administer the Foundation’s various programs, which prioritize needy inner city children; speak and write on forgiveness, the death penalty, suffering, God’s grace. Her son Brian’s brutal murder at the hands of burglars in 1999, has been the impetus for these commitments.

Scott Schaeffer-Duffy

Scott Schaeffer-Duffy accepted an invitation to join our Board in February. Scott is a father of four, living with his wife Claire and their children at the Catholic Worker in Worcester MA. He received his degree in religious studies from the College of the Holy Cross. He reports continuous efforts, from college to the present, to persuade people to see the connections between life issues.

He embraces “radical nonviolence, nonviolence that goes to the root of its highest ideals and to the root of violence’s seductive allure,” and maintains that the “consistent life ethic is not only morally and intellectually correct, but enormously powerful for initiating long-awaited creative change for the better.”

Linda Naranjo-Huebl

Linda Naranjo-Huebl agreed to join our Board in March. Linda grew up in a large family in Denver CO. She became involved with Denver’s first independent crisis pregnancy center in 1981, and her family has hosted over fifty young pregnant women in their home since then. In 1982 she joined Feminists for Life and began work with its Denver chapter, as a writer and speaker at colleges and other public forums and with various prolife coalitions promoting prolife and prowoman education and legislation initiatives.

In 1995 she co-edited, along with Rachel MacNair and Mary Krane Derr, Prolife Feminism: Yesterday and Today, recently expanded and reissued. She serves on the board of directors of the Feminism and Nonviolence Studies Association and conducts research and teaching in the areas of women’s studies, American ethnic literatures and history, and peace issues.

In 2001, she earned a Ph.D. in English, in Women’s and American Ethnic Literature, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Linda is currently a Professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI and remains close to her extended family as a part-time resident of Denver.