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		<title>Michiana Bridgefolk sponsors day of reflection</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/08/24/michiana-bridgefolk-sponsors-day-of-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michiana Bridgefolk will host a day of reflection on September 18 in South Bend, IN.  Participants will focus on “A Mennonite and Catholic Contribution to the World Council of Churches’ Decade to Overcome Violence.” Leaders include Bishop Kevin Rhoades, Marlene Kropf, Andre Stoner, Margie Pfeil, Mary Schertz, Tina Velthuizen, Mike Griffin, Rich Meyer, and Jay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bridgefolk conference explores footwashing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collegeville &#8211; The annual Bridgefolk conference, which each summer brings together Mennonites and Catholics for four days of discussion and fellowship, met this year at Saint John’s Abbey at Collegeville, MN. This year topic was footwashing, which has emerged as a central practice of the conferences.
The program began with addresses by Mary Schertz, professor of [...]]]></description>
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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>Conference ride-sharing information</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/07/02/conference-ride-sharing-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of people have indicated interest in sharing  rides to this summer&#8217;s conference.  Anyone interested in ride-sharing should e-mail coordinator @ bridgefolk.net.  An e-mail list will be formulated in early July to allow interested parties to offer or request rides to/from the conference.
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		<title>Press release: 2010 Bridgefolk conference explores footwashing</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/06/02/press-release-2009-bridgefolk-conference-explores-footwashing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/06/02/press-release-2009-bridgefolk-conference-explores-footwashing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collegeville, MN (Bridgefolk) – For the ninth consecutive year a voluntary group of North American Mennonites and Catholics will meet for three days this summer for conversations about the faith which unites them—and the issues which divide them.  The Benedictine community at St. John&#8217;s Abbey in Collegeville MN will host the gathering, as it has [...]]]></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>Bridgefolk co-sponsors ecumenical peace conference</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/04/25/bridgefolk-co-sponsors-ecumenical-peace-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace Among the Peoples is a gathering of ecumenically minded Christian peacemakers. This  conference will be an opportunity to reflect on the future of ecumenical  peacemaking in North America, and beyond. Bridgefolk is a co-sponsor of this conference.
In May 2011, the World Council of Churches will hold the  International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference registration now open</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/03/31/conference-registration-now-open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Registration is now open for the 2010 conference.  The conference will be held July 22-25 at St. John&#8217;s Abbey in Collegeville, MN.  Visit the conference page for more information or click here to access the registration form directly.  Online registration will be available soon.
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		<title>Bridgefolk 2010 Conference schedule updated</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/03/15/bridgefolk-2010-conference-schedule-updated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To see the updated schedule for this summer&#8217;s conference, please click here.  For registration information, please click here.
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