Category: Servant Song

Poetry Corner – Pieta – By George Capaccio

Pietà Artists, they counsel, take all that anger building up in you and use it to make something beautiful for the world to wear or otherwise possess.

July 2, 2015

Sowing Seeds: Reflection on the Anniversary of Our Agape Wedding, May 29th 2014 – By Emily Jendzejec and Bennett Comerford

Spring of 2005: We Come to Agape We like to think of it more as it was always meant to be. Agape chose us years ago, and we have been

July 2, 2015

Pope Francis and Nonviolent Parenting: A Personal Reflection – by Suzanne Belote Shanley

In remarks during a general audience at the Vatican in February, devoted to “the role of fathers in the family,” Pope Francis spoke of correcting children “with firmness” commenting on

July 2, 2015

Tribute to Juanita Morrow Nelson – August 17, 1923 – March 9, 2015 – By Brayton Shanley

I do not remember the first time that I met Juanita Nelson and her husband Wally. In the world of peacemaking, the names and tax refusal actions of these most

July 2, 2015

Book Review: Seizing the Nonviolent Moments by Nancy Small

Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace Nancy Small has just published a new book, Seizing the Nonviolent Moments: Reflections on the Spirituality of Nonviolence Through the Lens of Scripture, available

June 26, 2015

“Blessed Are the Merciful” – By Pat Ferrone

Armed only with banners advocating mercy, and signs decrying the death penalty, nonviolent peacemakers from Agape, Pax Christi, Veterans for Peace and elsewhere, regularly stand vigil in front of the

June 26, 2015

Ecology and Religion – by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

What might be the contribution of religions to the long-term flourishing of the Earth community? If Earth’s life support systems are critically endangered, as the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment Report suggests;

January 27, 2015

A Vital Conversation: Integrating Ecology, Justice and Peace On Agape’s 32nd Anniversary – by Suzanne Belote Shanley

At first we thought only of disaster for our annual St. Francis Day event as forecast after forecast of steady rain, forced us to set up three huge tents for

January 26, 2015

Must We Not Kill? – by Brayton Shanley

Outrage at the bombing of ISIS is in short supply these past months. There must be strong compliance in this absence of opposition. One can almost hear the unstated logic:

January 25, 2015

It Runs In the Family: On Being Raised By Radicals by Frida Berrigan

by Frida Berrigan Once, when my husband Patrick was a kid, he and all his friends were sitting under a big table in a circle. They were talking in emphatic

January 5, 2015

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