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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 see the crucified Jesus in our lives more compellingly every day. Please consider joining us for our: LENTEN VIRTUAL RETREAT SPONSORED BY
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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 a mystic, environmentalist woman priest of the Episcopal Church, Margaret Bullit-Jonas. Denise’s poetry matches the 6 a.m amazement as I look out
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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 and the 2020 Election.” It consisted of a morning session, an afternoon small group discussion, and an open mic. During the
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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 me. I cannot recall when I became of age or when I became aware of my “place” in society. I thought I was obscure, invisible, undetected,
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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 with her four siblings in various housing developments and projects in the Boston area. Julie and her family have been a part of
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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 the center of our collective consciousness. After the brutal and callous murder of George Floyd by Minnesota police on May 25, 2020, masked protesters have come
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Loving Life on the Margins • the story of the Agape community
40 years of Community, Resistance, Nonviolence and Sustainability. Read "Loving Life on the Margins: The Story of the Agape Community" available now! Order online from our website or download an order form to purchase by mail. The book covers the life of its co-founders, Suzanne and Brayton...
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Recording of “Embodying Eco-Justice at Freedom Farm: A Conversation with Edgar Hayes”
Please enjoy this video of a recent event facilitated by the Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue at Iona College, featuring Agape Mission Council members Edgar Hayes and Jim Robinson. On February 24, 2021, Professor Silmilly Toribio hosted “Embodying Eco-Justice at Freedom Farm: A Conversation with Edgar Hayes” in her
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Join us on Zoom for Brigid Night (2/13) at 7:00pm!
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 Please join our zoom gathering. There is no need to register in
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Lift Every Voice and Sing – by Melinda Adrienne Pellerin, SSJ
“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 on ’til victory is won.” Often called the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written as a poem by
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Rooted in Love – by Jeanelle Wheeler
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 a huge part of fighting for racial justice because, as Lala Saad writes in her book, Me and White Supremacy, “You cannot dismantle what
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Power Differential in the Context of Poverty in Haiti – by Steve and Nancy James
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 day, we wished that we had brown skin and black hair and that we were not white foreigners. Although our childhood in Burma/Myanmar
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Look Again – by Rev. Jonathan Betts Fields
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 Beloved Community. If we want to change our world, we first must live, move and become the change we wish to see.
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Be the Change – by Julie Bradley
After attending Agape’s October 2020 Zoom Francis Day event, I felt a sense illumination. Agape Community stepped up to the challenge of racism, showing its members’ level of commitment and involvement in all areas of struggle within humanity. This event brought me a sense of hope that in the future
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The Dream of Allyship – by Edgar Hayes
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 runner keeps being held back from completing the race by one obstacle after another, until a merged path appears when “a huge
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God’s Peace Heals All Divisions: An Election Year Vigil – by Jim Robinson
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 in the living room of St. Francis House and read an excerpt from the encyclical. We sit with the impact of Pope
