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Voices: Notes from the Agape Community

Posted by SuzanneShanley on January 1, 2021

In Memoriam: Nina Anderson Nina, long time Agape friend, supporter, and neighbor died November 13th after a long illness with cancer. Nina was a mystical soul who…

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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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Corona Virus as Teacher

Posted by SuzanneShanley on August 26, 2020

by Brayton Shanley It has been six long months since Covid 19 arrived and began to shut the country down, bringing the mighty to…

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Irony and Perspective in Corona Times

Posted by SuzanneShanley on August 26, 2020

by Suzanne Belote Shanley As I walk to St. Francis House, I turn to the garden, just as the sun rises above the lush…

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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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Harmony with the Cycles of Nature

Posted by SuzanneShanley on August 25, 2020

by Merwyn DeMello My wife, Kirstin and I, returned to the US in March, after a six-year span…

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