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agape love

Tolerating Tolerance

Tolerance costs me nothing. Loving others — seeking their good, willing their prosperity and happiness, genuinely desiring their companionship — this is the hazardous business of community, of relationship-building, of making and sustaining friendships for the long haul. Tolerance is all too happy to avoid all this. Tolerance turns out to be a means for…

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Agapic Justice

I believe that if societies continue to view fairness, equality, and merit as the characteristics of justice, injustice will continue to prevail everywhere. I believe we need we a new logic focusing on relationality made explicit in solitude or care, characterized by tenderness and resulting in reconciliatory praxis. –Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Painting by Tristen Henry-Wilson