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		<title>Footwashing: one congregation&#8217;s story</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/07/15/footwashing-one-congregations-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgefolk participant Pat Shaver from Seattle Mennonite Church offers these reflections on the challenges her congregation encountered while planning a footwashing service:
Hygiene and hospitality
Seattle Mennonite is an urban congregation with a growing homeless ministry. MRSA (virulent type of infection) is frequent among the homeless.  The congregation needed a way to protect the health of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why footwashing – a testimony</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/07/12/why-footwashing-%e2%80%93-a-testimony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read with interest your announcement of the Foot Washing Conference to be held this summer. I am a retired Mennonite Minister in Des Allemands, LA. I would love to attend your conference.  But that is not possible.  Instead I will share this testimony:
Among my friends was Father &#8220;Mac&#8221; McCallion, the priest at St. Gertrude&#8217;s Catholic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended reading: &#8220;As Different as We Think: Catholics and Protestants&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/04/21/recommended-reading-as-different-as-we-think-catholics-and-protestants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protestants and Catholics may use much the same vocabulary to express their respective beliefs and practices, but behind this common language lie different ways of thinking.  Becoming aware of and paying attention to these differences is essential for fruitful ecumenical dialogue.
Bridgefolk board member Darrin Snyder Belousek calls our attention to a recent article in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Forgiving Lutherans could be a temptation for self-righteousness,&#8221; says Mennonite theologian</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/02/11/forgiving-lutherans-could-be-a-temptation-for-self-righteousness-says-mennonite-theologian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The request of our historic persecutors for forgiveness presents us Mennonites with a temptation and an opportunity, warns Jeremy Bergen, assistant professor of Religious Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ont.  In response to a previous article in Canadian Mennonite, Bergen publsihed the following commentary on the magazine&#8217;s website. 




Jeremy Bergen

Towards the conversion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title> The Mennonite  features personal story of Mennonite-Catholic journey</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/02/09/catholic-mennonite-story-in-mennonite-publication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent issue of The Mennonite includes a reflection from a &#8220;dyed-in-the-wool Catholic&#8221; who &#8220;came to feel comfortable and welcomed in a Mennonite community.&#8221;  The article is linked here.
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		<title>Sermon for Week of Prayer for Christian Unity</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/01/22/sermon-for-week-of-prayer-for-christian-unity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of Bridgefolk recommends a sermon preached at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva on January 18 on the occasion of Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.  Click here to read.
Excerpt:
The insight of our ecumenical pioneers in Edinburgh Missionary Conference in 1910 is that witness to the things of Christ’s resurrection will only be effective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week of Prayer for Christian Unity coincides with response to Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/01/20/week-of-prayer-for-christian-unity-coincides-with-response-to-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This week we join Christians of all denominations and traditions in celebrating the Week of Christian Unity,&#8221; wrote Joetta Schlabach, Bridgefolk participant and pastor of Faith Mennonite Church in Minneapolis, to her congregation this week.  &#8220;Certainly the tragedy in Haiti is drawing people of all faiths—and many who do not profess faith—to join in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let go of marytr complex,&#8221; urges Bridgefolk participant</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2009/12/10/let-go-of-marytr-complex-urges-bridgefolk-participant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgefolk participant Julia Smucker recently published a letter to the editor in The Mennonite (Oct. 6 issue, p. 4).  Since her letter needed to be shortened, she asked to share the original letter here: 
Four pieces of my recent reading material are currently milling about in my mind:
1) the 2003 document Called Together to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tribute to Brother Roger of Taizé</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2005/09/01/a-tribute-to-brother-roger-of-taize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ken Henke, Princeton Theological Seminary

On Tuesday, August 23, funeral services will be held for Brother Roger of Taizé. At the age of 90, he was attacked with a knife by a woman, most probably mentally disturbed, in the midst of community prayer in the Church of Reconciliation at Taizé, France. He died shortly afterward.

The son of a Swiss Reformed pastor, at age 25 he left his native Switzerland and came bicycling into the tiny, poor hamlet of Taizé in France, seeking a place where he could quietly devote himself to a life of prayer and contemplation. A peasant woman, keeper of the keys to the run-down house and property which Roger Schutz had come to look at, begged him to buy the house and stay. Later on, when asked, "Why Taizé?" Roger Schutz was to say: "I chose Taizé because the woman was poor. Christ speaks through the poor, and it's good to listen to them. Anyone who begins with the poorest of the poor is not likely to go wrong."]]></description>
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