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Putin’s Sword is Our Sword by Brayton Shanley
Putin’s Sword is Our Sword by Brayton Shanley Russian President Vladimir Putin is behaving like an unhinged dictator hell bent on occupying and decimating Ukraine. He apparently needs to satisfy his vanity and his lust for power in re-establishing a Soviet Empire. Is this why the Russian people love him so and give him such…
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Light Shines in the Darkness
by Tom Roepke FIRST IN-PERSON EVENT AT AGAPE SINCE COVID LOCK DOWN We felt the joy of gathering as a community on a Saturday evening, December 11th in Francis House. While smaller in size, the evening marked a return to Agape’s in-person gatherings. The whole evening had a special quality! Of the twenty-three people who…
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Jurcheck Family Visit and Vigil in Boston
The Agape Community grew this week not only in numbers, but also in smiles and vibrant, youthful energy. On Monday, July 12th, Steve and Nancy James, part of the original founding group of the Community, arrived in the evening just in time for a weekly Mission Council Zoom meeting. The next night, John, Courtney, Oliver…
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Care for Creation
The Catholic Social Justice Principles teaches us to Care for Creation. The Bible itself says “humans are commanded to care for God’s creation (Genesis 2:15). But what does it mean to care for God’s creation? We, here at Agape, attempted to answer this question in a community discussion. Today, we often see how easy it…
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Freedom Farm Visit
What do you get when a chicken crosses the road to Freedom Farm? A lively weekend filled to the brim with love and laughter. Ann Rader, as well as their farm dog Teo, welcomed us warmly. Like a Freedom Farm fairy tale, Mallory and Louisa donned a pair of galoshes that fit just right. Dressed…
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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 also a ceremonial person, a practitioner of sweat lodges and Sundance. These different ceremonial pieces make up my Native being and walk. I have ceremony,…
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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 on the ancestral and traditional lands of the Meskwaki and Ho Chunk from which they were forcibly removed after the land was stolen by White colonizers. We Christians don’t have a great track…
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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 crisis. In fact, we find ourselves in an atmosphere thick with the intersection of multiple social and environmental crises, an atmosphere so thick it sometimes seems difficult to see, so thick it sometimes…
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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 entering into a prayer, a reflection, and the heart of God’s communication with each of us. Dreams are ways in which God enters our thoughts…
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