Communities of Love, Resistance and Constructive Work: A 12 min talk by Stellen Vinthagen

Dr. Stellan Vinthagen, Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Resistance, Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Stellan Vinthagen is a Professor of Sociology and a scholar-activist. Vinthagen is the Inaugural Endowed Chair in the Study of Nonviolent Direct Action and

The National Day of Mourning: A Necessary Call to Action

Brayton and I joined well over 1000 people gathered in Plymouth, MA on November 25, 2021 to participate in the National Day of Mourning. The day was filled with impassioned talks by indigenous speakers describing the injustice and atrocities suffered by native peoples at the hands of white immigrants who

Agape Garden Greens Continue to Grow in Snow

  It has already snowed several times here at Agape, yet the garden continues to offer fresh greens for salads. As we moved through the third week of Advent, picking and eating fresh greens was a source of joy. Imagine picking the collard greens pictured, walking inside, and adding them

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!

Servant Song Volume 31, No. 1 Winter 2022

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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

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

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

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

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