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		<title>Mennonite World Conference endorses dialogue with Catholics, Lutherans</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Addis Ababa, Ethiopia &#8211; During its annual meeting in July, the Executive Committee of Mennonite World Conference approved participation in a tri-lateral conversation with the Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.  General Secretary Larry Miller reflected: “Because  of our history, we Anabaptists have often seen ourselves as heirs of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thirty Christian faith traditions share the peace</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/08/12/peace-among-the-peoples/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by John Bender
ELKHART, Ind.—Jamal, a Muslim refugee from Zanzibar, and Matthew, a Jew, got acquainted as their children played in a neighborhood parkette in Canada’s largest city, Toronto. Learning of Jamal’s computer skills, Matthew found him a job.
Later, as the events of September 11, 2001, unfolded, Jamal came to Matthew’s house, shaken. ”I’m so sorry, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vatican&#8217;s ecumenical council proposes renewed dialogue with Mennonites</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/07/16/vaticans-ecumenical-council-proposes-renewed-dialogue-with-mennonites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Information Service publication of the Vatican&#8217;s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) includes news that the PCPCU has sent a letter to the Mennonite World Council &#8220;proposing a round of conversations.&#8221;  The council suggests that this new round of dialogue begin in late 2010 or early 2011, and that discussions center on &#8220;the theology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lutherans to seek formal reconciliation with Anabaptists</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/07/16/lutherans-to-seek-formal-reconciliation-with-anabaptists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strasbourg, France (MWC) -When Lutherans from around the world gather in July, they will seek a historic reconciliation with Mennonites and other Christians of the Anabaptist tradition. On July 22, the third day of the eleventh assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) to be held in Stuttgart, Germany, delegates are expected to ask &#8220;forgiveness-from [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Mennonite-Catholic dialogue featured in ecumenical conference</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/05/05/mennonite-catholic-dialogue-featured-in-ecumenical-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 18:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent Mennonite-Catholic dialogue will be among the projects discussed at an upcoming ecumenical conference in St. Paul, MN.  Hosted by Saint Paul Seminary, &#8220;A Century of Ecumenism&#8221; will be held June 17-19.  The conference is organized by Monsignor John Radano, Vatican staff person for the Mennonite-Catholic dialogue.
From the conference website:
The goal of this seminar [...]]]></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>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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