Ethnic and Racial Diversity: A Challenge to a White Community

by Suzanne Belote Shanley (an excerpt from a chapter in Loving Life on the Margins: The Story of the Agape Community by…

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Following Jesus in a Post-Truth World

by Brayton Shanley “Ultimates have to be seen for what they are; namely, ultimate.”  This statement from Thomas Merton drives…

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Incarceration in a Rural Georgia County Jail

by Martha Hennessey In southeastern Georgia, it is near the end of May, and the seven of us who participated…

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New Energy

by Aria Killough-Miller “Can everyone halt?” Brayton asks. We pause from clearing lunch dishes and discussing afternoon tasks. He begins…

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May 2018 Stonehill College Rural Immersion

by Rachel Riani At the end of May, eight of my fellow classmates at Stonehill College along with two faculty members went on an H.O.P.E. (Honoring…

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Prayer Before a Driftwood Cross

(in gratitude for a visit to Agape Community) by Marjorie Corbman In the morning light, thick as golden ribbons from the window to my…

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Pray With Our Feet: A Kairos Moment in Charlottesville One Year Later

by Eric Martin Life in Charlottesville tends to normalize what may seem dramatic or outlandish elsewhere. Amidst the violence that…

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News Notes

Ali Mahmood whom we have known since he arrived at Agape for a visit in 2007, graduated from high school, Another…

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Excerpt from a remembrance of Paul Hood

by Jo Connelly It was 1983 and I was at Friends Meeting at Beacon Hill, having just settled into worship Sunday morning,…

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Jeanelle Wheeler: Agape Lifer Graduates from Brown

by Brayton Shanley and Suzanne Belote Shanley Jeanelle has been coming to Agape since her mother Teresa Wheeler carried her here in…

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