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		<title>Advent issue of The Mennonite features cover story on Mary</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Advent this year, the cover story for the December issue of The Mennonite asks how Mennonites should think of Mary as &#8220;model and mother.&#8221;  A related article reflects on Mary&#8217;s Magnificat, and two poems portray the role of Joseph and Elizabeth in the drama of Jesus&#8217; birth.  Another article, by Bridgefolk board member Darrin Snyder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Contours of the Catholic Mind&#8221; by Julia Smucker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgefolk participant Julia Smucker recently posted the following reflection on the blog site Vox Nova.   One year ago, following about six years of will-I-won’t-I agonizing, I finally made it all the way into the Catholic Church. In my ongoing immersion into the Catholic world before and since (call it mystagogy, call it acculturation), I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blessed are the merciful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dora Dueck Borrowing Bones blog I belong to a Mennonite-Catholic dialogue group which meets several times a year. Our assignment for this week’s meeting was a personal reflection on the Beatitudes, broadly, and then more specifically, in choosing one beatitude we were particularly “attracted” to at this point — in not more than seven minutes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mennonite interchurch leader analyzes shift away from just war theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Sept. 12 issue of the Mennonite Weekly Review, Andre Gingerich Stoner observes that leaders of Christian churches from around the world are increasingly concluding that the just war theory is obsolete.  Stoner is director of holistic witness and interchurch relations for Mennonite Church USA.  Here is his commentary: Just war concept obsolete by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on 9/11 and Catholic peacebuilding in US Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its September issue, US Catholic interviewed Maryann Cusimano Love on the aftermath of 9/11 and Catholic understandings of peacebuilding.  Cusimano Love is a friend of Bridgefolk who teaches at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC.  Among her reflections are these: That nonviolent resistance can be very effective is something most Catholics don’t understand, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message of International Ecumenical Peace Convocation:&#8220;Churches can teach nonviolence, if we dare&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final message of the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation, held in Jamaica in May, closes by highlighting the witness of historic peace churches, and insisting that all churches can teach peace to the powerful: History, especially in the witness of the historic peace churches, reminds us of the fact that violence is contrary to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor explains Mennonite faith on CNN blog</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2011/06/26/pastor-explains-mennonite-faith-on-cnn-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goshen College, a Mennonite school in northern Indiana, has been in the news lately following the decision of its board to reverse an earlier decision and stop playing the U.S. national anthem before athletic events.  In a blog post for CNN today, Mennonite pastor Mark Schloneger does an exceptionally good job of explaining Mennonite beliefs succinctly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article explores hospitality in worship</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2011/05/10/article-explores-hospitality-in-worship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 14:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgefolk participant Heather Grennan Gary explored hospitality and worship in a recently published article in U.S. Catholic. Heather shares with the following introduction for the article: The hospitality I’ve encountered within a Mennonite context has been a special and surprising gift. I wrote the following article in part to uphold it as an example worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Road to Nonviolence:&#8221; America magazine assesses ecumenical peace efforts</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2011/02/16/the-road-to-nonviolence-america-magazine-assesses-ecumenical-peace-efforts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two special designations were proclaimed for this millennium’s first decade, which comes to an end this year: the Decade to Overcome Violence, sponsored by the World Council of Churches; and the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World, sponsored by the United Nations. The core objective of [...]]]></description>
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