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  • Agape Community Servant Song Winter 2021. Artwork by D Roberts Kirk

    Pro-Death Catholics and the Racist Death Penalty

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

    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

    Posted by Jim Robinson on October 21, 2020

    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

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on August 26, 2020

    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

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on August 26, 2020

    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

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on August 25, 2020

    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

    Posted by George on November 11, 2019

    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

    Posted by George on September 20, 2019

    Softcover • ISBN 97819483800304 • 336 pages • $24.95


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  • Join us on Zoom for Brigid Night (2/13) at 7:00pm!

    Posted by Jim Robinson on January 27, 2021

    Please join us on Zoom for Agape’s Annual St. Brigid Night Mid-winter Celtic feast of Poetry, Prayer and Song, celebrating St. Brigid of Kildare Saturday, Feb.13th, 7:00 pm


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  • Join Our Lenten Retreat: Loving Life on the Margins, Finding Our Prophetic Voice

    Posted by Jim Robinson on January 27, 2021

    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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    Lift Every Voice and Sing – by Melinda Adrienne Pellerin, SSJ

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

    “Lift ev’ry voice and sing, ‘Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty… facing the rising sun of our new day begun, Let us march…


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  • Rooted in Love – by Jeanelle Wheeler

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

    I believe white people need to learn to talk about race.  White people need to own our whiteness and examine what whiteness means.  This examination is…


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  • Power Differential in the Context of Poverty in Haiti – by Steve and Nancy James

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

    We both grew up as missionary kids in Burma/Myanmar where our friends were Burmese/Karen kids, so we were very conscious of not being like our friends.  Every…


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  • Look Again – by Rev. Jonathan Betts Fields

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

    It is essential that we notice how we have been changed and how we have worked to change ourselves if we are to truly become anti-racists building the…


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  • Be the Change – by Julie Bradley

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

    After attending Agape’s October 2020 Zoom Francis Day event, I felt a sense illumination. Agape Community stepped up to the challenge of…


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  • The Dream of Allyship – by Edgar Hayes

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

    There is a classic story about a hypothetical dream conveyed to a psychiatrist in which a runner tries to catch up in a race of 401 laps. The…


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  • Election Day Ware Vigil Agape Community

    God’s Peace Heals All Divisions: An Election Year Vigil – by Jim Robinson

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

    Throughout the fall, we at Agape have been reading Pope Francis’s recently released encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, as part of our noonday prayer. Before eating lunch together, we gather…


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  • Finding a New Way of Being – by Dixon George

    Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

    At different points in my life I’ve found myself reflecting on where I have come from, where I am now, and where I am going.  The answers that I get…


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