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	<description>Website for Bridgefolk, a movement of sacramentally-minded Mennonites and peace-minded Roman Catholics who come together to celebrate each other&#039;s traditions, explore each other&#039;s practices, and honor each other&#039;s contribution to the mission of Christ&#039;s Church.</description>
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		<title>Bridgefolk 2012 conference registration now open</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Formed in the Word: Scripture and Peacemaking 2012 Bridgefolk Conference Saint Benedict’s Monastery, St. Joseph, Minnesota July 26 – 29  Registration now open! The 2012 Bridgefolk conference will take place at Saint Benedict’s Monastery &#38; The College of Saint Benedict in Saint Joseph, Minnesota from July 26 – 29, 2012. This year’s conference will focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Spirituality versus Religion: Or maybe it&#8217;s not new&#8230;.&#8221; commentary by Jana Bennett</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current debates over &#8220;traditional religion&#8221; sometimes track partially with ecumenical dialogue between Mennonites and Catholics.  The following blog by University of Dayton theology professor Jana Bennett may therefore be of interest to Bridgefolk.   I&#8217;ve been reading a lot lately around the blogosphere from people who find themselves at odds with &#8220;traditional Christianity,&#8221; by which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naming the pain: a Lenten reflection on transforming the wounds of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolyn Holderread Heggen chapel address Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary February 28, 2012 &#160; PeaceSigns, a publication of the Peace and Justice Support Network of Mennonite Church USA, recently published the following chapel address by Carolyn Holderread Heggen, psychotherapist specializing in individual and communal trauma healing.  The article caught our eye because Holderread Heggen dedicated her address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please pray for Br. Jeffrey Gros, FSC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we posted a news article on the Bridgefolk website: “Leading ecumenist Br. Jeffrey Gros, FSC, highlights Lutheran-Mennonite footwashing in keynote address.”  Brother Jeffrey has asked for the prayers of Bridgefolk as he prepares for surgery to treat a pancreatic tumor this month.  He writes: I am doing very well and the MDs are optimistic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Benedictine Academy to &#8220;Seek Peace and Pursue It&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2012/03/15/american-benedictine-academy-to-seek-peace-and-pursue-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Benedictine Academy has chosen as the theme of its 2012 annual meeting, &#8220;Seek Peace and Pursue It: Monasticism in the Midst of Global Upheaval.&#8221;  The conference will be held at St. Scholastic Monastery in Duluth MN.  Bridgefolk board member Weldon Nisly will be one of the featured speakers.  (Those planning to attend the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading ecumenist  Br. Jeffrey Gros, FSC, highlights Lutheran-Mennonite footwashing in keynote address</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A keynote address by Br. Jeffrey Gros, FSC, to the 2011 National Workshop on Christian Unity last May has recently come to our attention.  In it he called attention to the use of footwashing at a historic service of repentance and reconciliation, in which representatives of the Lutheran World Federation confessed 16th-century persecution of Anabaptists as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Houser recommends PBS documentary on Catholicism in The Mennonite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the February issue of The Mennonite, Associate Editor Gordon Houser recommends a 10-part documentary on Catholicism showing on PBS in the US in the following article.   Catholicism, PBS and Tebowmania Mediaculture: Reflections on the effect of media and culture on our faith by Gordon Houser For anyone who laments the lack of religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Margaret Pfeil and Gerald Schlabach suggest fresh Lenten practices in America magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Bridgefolk board members, Margaret Pfeil and Gerald Schlabach, are among four writers who suggest positive practices to &#8220;take up&#8221; for Lent in order to move beyond typical practices of &#8220;giving up.&#8221;   Schlabach suggests ways to &#8220;Love the Enemy in Your Pew&#8221; by inviting fellow Catholics with whom one most disagrees to share their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darrin Snyder Belousek wins award for article on financial crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2012/02/19/darrin-snyder-belousek-wins-award-for-article-on-financial-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgefolk board member Darrin Snyder Belousek has won an award from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute for an article he wrote in 2010 in the Journal of Markets and Morality entitled &#8220;“Market Exchange, Self-Interest, and the Common Good: Financial Crisis and Moral Economy.”  The Templeton Enterprise Awards on the Culture of Enterprise are given annually to the [...]]]></description>
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