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To all Agape Affiliates, Friends, and Partners in Peacemaking,
We write to you as the Mission Council Advisory Team of the Agape Community, with appreciation for your ongoing commitment to nonviolent peace-building and your active participation in the work of inclusive,
faith-rooted resistance. At this critical moment in the life of our nation and the planet, we invite you to join us:
AGAPE’S ANNUAL FRANCIS
DAY 2025
An Urgent Call to Action
to People of Faith
Saturday, October 4, 2025
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM at the Agape Community
This year’s focus is communal grief and spiritual strategies for public resistance in the face of militarism, injustice, and political upheaval. Join Agape and The Catholic Worker, Pax Christi, Freedom
Farm, JustFaith, GreenFaith, Benincasa Community, your own groups:
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Civil disobedience and war tax refusal
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Boycotts and nonviolent direct action
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Public prayer, communal lament, and
contemplative practice
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Grief, anger, and resilience
We believe that faithful resistance requires courage and community. Francis Day 2025 will be a day of learning, dialogue, ritual, and shared discernment. As supporters and partners of Agape, we ask you
to save the date, spread the word, and consider how you and your communities might participate.
Brayton Shanley and Suzanne Belote Shanley, Agape co-founders will open the 36th Annual Francis day and 43rd Anniversary of Agape with talk on the lineage of
interfaith resistance, beginning promptly at 10. Plan to arrive for 9:30
Freedom Farm founders Edgar Hayes and Ann Rader will open our afternoon session. Freedom Farm is a faith-based community in Mount Hope, New York, that grows food to share with people who don’t have access to or can’t afford fresh produce.
Sessions will be facilitated by Agape’s Rising Generation including Jim Robinson, Jeanelle Wheeler and Nathan Dufour Oglesby.
In prayerful gratitude,
The Agape Mission Council: Nathan Dufour Oglesby, Ryan O’Connell, Jim Robinson, Jeanelle Wheeler, Teresa Wheeler, Stephen James,
Nancy James, Kate Carew, Bob Wegener, Ann Rader, Edgar Hayes
Please RSVP for space concerns and call for accommodations: www.agapecommunity.org pe...@agapecommunity.org |
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