Agape

Jack and Susan Pappas contacted my office seeking an appointment for leadership coaching services. I met the Pappas’ at their restaurant, Agape, while attending a private Life Coaches Meet and Greet Affair. The restaurant was a renown hot spot and received several five-star reviews for their service, ambience and cuisine. The Pappas’ exhibited excellent customer service and teamwork. This family entered the culinary industry with a recipe for success. Two years passed since our introduction, and…

that girls cannot protect themselves. One of the songs chosen was “Agape” by Zhang Li Yin, a Chinese vocalist who sang this powerful tribute to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake victims. There is also “Severely” by the band FTIsland, a Korean boy group, singing this emotional ballad. Lee Hong Ki, the main singer of the boy band FTIsland, sang and starred in the music video “Severely”. Zhang Li Yin has a few parts in the music video “Agape”, but it only shows her singing the song, not acting in the…

and their family from many, “...if I didn’t I couldn’t hold up my head in town, I couldn’t represent this county in legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again”(Lee 76). First, this shows Atticus executing one aspect of agape—he acknowledged that he is connected to a man he barely knew and this connections would mean his inaction would be detrimental to himself. Indeed, if he were not to act in defence for his “brother”, as King would refer to people on earth being…

that is great and true. In order to understand what love really is, there are three different words to describe the types of love: Eros, Phileo and Agape. Eros is used to describe a physical attraction to one another and sensual love people feel towards someone. Phileo is used to describe the love for our family, friends, and companions while Agape, is commonly known as, the unconditional love. Love is not only defined by its manner rather…

make a good couple. The inward thinking man tries to persuade this woman for self gratification and personal gain. While this song contains lots of infatuation, Astley also parades several examples of agape. The love-struck Astley continues the song by stating he’s thinking of “a full commitment”. Agape, the unconditional and sacrificial love is displayed through Astley’s wholehearted commitment to this woman. It is obvious that an unconditional and open connection is desired through Astley’s…

Psyche’s understand of agape love does not come into fruition until she receives it from the god of the mountain: “[having a husband] makes me love more – why, it makes me love everyone and everything – more” (TWHF, 159). The god of the mountain completes gift-love in Psyche:…

mean having an attachment or desire to be with another; to others, love may feel like a complete entity that envelops you once you have found “the one.” However, to the Greeks, love could actually be categorized into three different classes: eros, agape, and phileo. These three types, although distinct in what they display, would all come to be adopted into the practice of Christianity in relation to how we feel about those around us. Being the most self-centered of the three forms, eros helps…

Parish youth group on mission trips. Most recently, I spent the last two summers in Bellingham serving the migrant farm worker communities through the Agape Mission program. Analogous to other mission trips, Agape provided time for self-reflection, group prayers, and a great deal of manual labor.…

than pursue eros (romantic love). We need to also seek out and invest time with friends (phileo), and spend the night dancing (ludus), or even commit to do something unexpected for someone out of the ordinary, someone we’d least expect to do for (agape). We need to abandon the idea that those we love must be perfect. No one is perfect. Whether it is someone who’s being loved or someone giving love to someone else, we cannot expect that person to offer all the different kinds of love, all the…

other during a calamity. The third category of love is agape love or love for humanity. Agape love is the affection that enables people to contribute to charity. Agape love is characterized by benevolence, goodwill and willful delight in the object. When a neighboring nation is at war, there can be cases of victims that suffer a lot. The victims primarily comprise of the women and children that are most vulnerable members of the society. Agape love makes people sorrowful when they hear of harm,…