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		<title>Saint John&#8217;s awards Mennonite peacebuilder John Paul Lederach its highest honor</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/08/10/pax-christi-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its commencement ceremony May 9, Saint John&#8217;s University and Abbey in Minnesota awarded Mennonite peacebuilder John Paul Lederach its Pax Christi award.  The university&#8217;s highest honor, the Pax Christi award &#8221; recognizes  those who have devoted themselves to God by working in the tradition of  Benedictine monasticism to serve others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study guide to help prepare world convocation on peace</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/06/01/study-guide-to-help-prepare-world-convocation-on-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/06/01/study-guide-to-help-prepare-world-convocation-on-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geneva (WCC) &#8212; “Telling the Truth About Ourselves and Our World”, a study guide on overcoming violence in contemporary contexts, has been published by the World Council of Churches in English, French, German and Spanish as part of the build-up to the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation (IEPC) in May 2011 at Kingston, Jamaica.
Gathering about 1,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bridgefolk director calls new book the fruit of much interchurch dialogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 20:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gerald W. Schlabach, Bridgefolk co-founder and long-time director, has just published a new book on the practices of stability that all Christian churches need to sustain community in an age of individualism and mobility of all kinds.  “I know I’m being a little provocative with the title,” says Schlabach, “but Unlearning Protestantism is really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resource for interchurch families</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/04/25/resource-for-interchurch-families/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Follow this link to the website for the Association of Interchurch Families.  The organization &#8220;seeks to link all those families, groups, and Associations so    that together we may grow in Christian unity, and become for our  churches an    ever-greater gift of healing of the scandal of disunity.
It takes [...]]]></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>Resources for prayer for Christian unity</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/01/22/resources-for-prayer-for-christian-unity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here for Resources for The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and throughout the year, jointly prepared and published by The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and The Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches.
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		<title>Mennonite historian reviews book by Ivan Kauffman</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2009/11/17/mennonite-historian-reviews-book-by-ivan-kauffman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John A. Lapp, Mennonite historian and former executive secretary of Mennonite Central Committee, writes favorable review of a Follow Me: A History of Christian Intentionality by Bridgefolk co-founder Ivan J. Kauffman in this week&#8217;s issue of Mennonite Weekly Review.   Click here to read.
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		<title>Joint statement by Mennonites and Catholics to WCC Decade to Overcome Violence now available</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2008/06/29/joint-statement-by-mennonites-and-catholics-to-wcc-decade-to-overcome-violence-now-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on their 1998-2003 dialogue and ground-breaking document, Called Together to Be Peacemakers Mennonite and Catholic leaders met together for a brief conference October 23-25, 2007 in order to offer joint suggestions for the World Council of Churches’ Decade to Overcome Violence  (DOV). The DOV will culminate in an International Ecumenical Peace Convocation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Bridges of Reconciliation in Latin America</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2007/07/13/743/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2007/07/13/743/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent publication from the Mennonite Central Committee &#8212; the cooperative agency of Mennonite denominations in North America for relief, development and peacebuilding &#8212; surveys bridge-building efforts between Roman Catholics and Evangelicals in Latin America.  The April-June issue of the Peace Office Newsletter is available online at http://mcc.org/peace/pon/PON_2007-02.pdf.  Introducing the newsletter is the [...]]]></description>
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