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Join Our Lenten Retreat: Loving Life on the Margins, Finding Our Prophetic Voice
Dear Friends of Agape, We hope that you are in the gospel mode as we follow the life of Jesus in these beginning days of Lent as we…
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Pro-Death Catholics and the Racist Death Penalty
by Suzanne Belote Shanley Today is the second day of Advent, and I have just completed reading two women friends’ mystical writing, one a poet, Denise Levertov, another…
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St. Francis Day 2020 Recap
On October 3, 2020, Agape Community celebrated our 31st annual (and first ever virtual) St. Francis Day. The event was titled “Becoming Anti-Racist to Build Beloved Community During COVID-19…
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Are You Willing to Become an Anti-Racist? by Edgar Hayes
by Edgar Hayes While walking down the streets of NYC, I witnessed with ease how other peoples’ conscious or subconscious thoughts played out before…
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We Demand Change Now. An interview with Julie Bradey
In this interview with Brayton Shanley, Julie Bradley shares her unique experience as a bi-racial daughter of a white mother and a black father, who grew up…
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COVID-19, Environmental Racism, and the Legacy of Dr. James Cone
by Jim Robinson Throughout the spring and summer of 2020, the radical evil of systemic racism and the death-dealing impact of COVID-19 have occupied…
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Francis Day 2019 – Youth Leadership, Elder Wisdom: Creating a Nonviolent Future
Celebrating 30 Years of St. Francis Day Videos Photos St. Francis Day 2019 Photos
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Loving Life on the Margins • the story of the Agape community
Softcover • ISBN 97819483800304 • 336 pages • $24.95
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Oppression Olympics
by Nicole Brathwaite-Hunt My perspective is kind of unique, being a mixed-race person and actively operating in that. I am not just living from my Indigenous side, but I am…
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Indigenous Peoples’ Lead Us
by Brenna Cussen-Anglada The farm I live on in community at St. Isadore Catholic Worker, where towns and the surrounding cities are…
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The Transformative Power of Faith
by James Robinson As we come together for this digital retreat during a global pandemic, we find ourselves in a context of…
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Joseph, the father, the Disenfranchised, the Refugee, the Dreamer
by Sister Melinda Pellerin ssj In my living room, above my flat screen television is the artist Lara James’s beautiful picture of St. Joseph dreaming. Dreaming is a lot like…
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Family in a Van: A Wild Adventure Still Unfolding
We were excited when we got the initial phone call from Courtney Hayes-Jurcheck and her husband John Jurcheck, both 40, who were…
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Daunte Wright… Say His Name
The day after Daunte Wright was killed by a Minneapolis policewoman Agape folks travelled to our customary protest vigil station in downtown Ware at Veterans Park. We came…
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A Song Over the Land: Finding Our Prophetic Voice
(A compilation of reflections offered by Agape co-founder, Suzanne Belote Shanley during the weekend Lenten Zoom Retreat sponsored by Mary’s House…
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Felipe Witchger Visits Agape
Felipe Witchger is a long-time friend of Agape who participated in the first group of graduate students ten years ago, who comprised what they called themselves, The Creatively Maladjusteds….
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More Workday Photos!
About 35 people joined Agape members for a memorable day with cords of wood work put up from our Agape trees as they sacrificed themselves for us. Skip Schiel…
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Visit with Bobby and Jim
From left to right: Louisa (the newest Agape intern), Dixon, Katya, Jim, Brayton, Suzanne, Mallory (intern), Olivia (Brayton and…
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