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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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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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Climate Change and Covid Are Telling Us: Go Vegan – By Katya Renée Freitas

Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

Like many people, Covid has drastically changed both my internal and external world. I was only about a month…

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The Harmonizing Power of Dialogue – by Steve Tumolo

Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

Joe Biden wins But God’s peace steals our attention The people and the woods of Agape Invite…

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The Splendor of Now – poem by Barry Winkelman

Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

Surrender to the splendor of the now Surround yourself with love’s serenity Suspend disbelief just for the moment Find peace within the…

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Kings Bay Plowshare 7 Update

Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

Agape continues to stand in solidarity with the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 and the death-dealing weapons that these systems produce and employ. With our plowshare friends, we renew…

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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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Conversation with a Trump Supporter on Election Day

Posted by SuzanneShanley on December 22, 2020

by Brayton Shanley About six of us from Agape made our way to the Ware High School on November 3rd where the locals were voting. What…

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