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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>Catholic-Mennonite  encuentro  in Guatemala</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COBAN, Guatemala &#8211; Local Catholics and Mennonites recently gathered in an unprecedented ecumenical meeting in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.  Among the participants were Rob and Tara Cahill, former workers with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Coban.
Rob and Tara offer this introductory account of the context for their work:
The Verapaz has deep historical connections with the Dominican [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Iraq Journey: Remembering Rutba, seeing Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Weldon Nisly
Pastor, Seattle Mennonite Church
Bridgefolk board member
Every day for nearly seven years I have remembered Iraq and envisioned returning to that war-torn occupied land. I have longed to return to Iraq with Christian Peacemaker Teams and dreamed of going back to Rutba, a desert city in Western Iraq. Rutba holds a special place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A prayer for Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rose Marie Berger
Most Holy Creator God, Lord of heaven and earth,
we bring before you today your people of Haiti.
It is You who set in motion the stars and seas,
You who raised up the mountains of the Massif de la Hotte
and Pic La Selle. It is You who made her people in your very image:
Their [...]]]></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>Mennonite &amp; Catholic theologians featured in Forum on Justice &amp; Forgiveness in Colombia</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2008/11/08/mennonite-catholic-theologians-featured-in-forum-on-justice-forgiveness-in-colombia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The South American nation of Colombia continues to attract our attention as the place in Latin America where Mennonites and Catholics are cooperating most regularly in peacemaking projects.  An event organized by the Colombian Bible Society recently turned to a Mennonite and a Catholic for two of its three major presentations.  A news service associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bridgefolk&#8217;s Gerald Schlabach in Commonweal magazine</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2007/06/05/bridgefolks-gerald-schlabach-in-commonweal-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgefolk Executive Director Gerald Schlabach has just had an article published in Commonweal magazine, entitled &#8220;You Converted to What? One Mennonite&#8217;s Journey.&#8221; In it he offers nine &#8220;non-Roman&#8221; reasons why he became Roman Catholic, even while remaining Mennonite in many ways. Commonweal has granted Schlabach permission to post the article on his web site. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity Today cover story on the &#8220;New Monasticism&#8221; movement</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2005/09/16/christianity-today-cover-story-on-the-new-monasticism-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>“Handing Us Back Ourselves:” On the Rediscovery of Mennonite Spirituality</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2002/07/30/handing-us-back-ourselves-on-the-rediscovery-of-mennonite-spirituality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Schertz
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
An updated version of this article entitled
&#8220;Seeking the Taproot of Anabaptist Spirituality&#8221;
is now available at
http://www.cascadiapublishinghouse.com/dsm/autumn04/schema.htm
Have we, as Mennonite people of faith, &#8220;lost our spirituality,&#8221; or perhaps never claimed a spirituality and, consequently, do we need to look to other traditions, such as Catholic spirituality, in order to recover this vital [...]]]></description>
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