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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>MWC requests prayer for Honduran church following murder of pastor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mennonite World Conference has issued the following press release in the wake of the murder of Rafael Erasmo Arevalo, a Mennonite pastor in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras.  Bridgefolk participant Joetta Schlabach has been traveling in Central America and had recently talked with other church workers in the Copán area.  Motives for the murder are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Larry Miller reflects on 22 years at the helm of Mennonite World Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mennonite World Conference news release by Phyllis Pellman Good “As long as the wind is in its sails. . .” Larry Miller remembers one moment clearly when, as a 38-year-old, he was weighing whether or not to accept the nomination to lead Mennonite World Conference. The year was 1988, 23 years ago, and he was sitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference on future of liberation theology includes examination of Mennonite peacemaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Raymond Plankey National Catholic Reporter  Mexico City (NCR)  &#8211; More than 300 theologians and pastoral workers met here last month in anticipation of the anniversaries of two events that have shaped contemporary Latin America: the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and the 40th anniversary of the publishing of Gustavo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic bishop and Mennonite Central Committee worker in Guatemala join to resist dam project threatening Maya Indian land</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tobias Roberts International Development Worker (reposted from the Huffington Post) Tension filled the cramped, block-wall room in the Guatemalan highlands as indigenous leaders sat across from negotiators for ENEL, an Italian-based energy company building a $228-million hydro-electric dam in the area. Local Mayan Ixhil leaders hoped the presence of a renowned Catholic archbishop, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darrin Snyder Belousek publishes major study on the atonement and peacemaking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgefolk participant and board member Darrin Snyder Belousek has just published a major new book on atonement.  The book develops a biblical theology of the cross in connection with justice and peacemaking.  Published by Eerdmans, the book is entitled Atonement, Justice, and Peace: The Message of Cross and the Mission of the Church.   Belousek notes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advent issue of The Mennonite features cover story on Mary</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Advent this year, the cover story for the December issue of The Mennonite asks how Mennonites should think of Mary as &#8220;model and mother.&#8221;  A related article reflects on Mary&#8217;s Magnificat, and two poems portray the role of Joseph and Elizabeth in the drama of Jesus&#8217; birth.  Another article, by Bridgefolk board member Darrin Snyder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Christian Forum holds second international gathering</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Release Mennonite World Conference  by Ron Rempel, MWC news editor &#160; Manado, Indonesia (MWC) &#8211;Anabaptists were among the 287 participants in a diverse Christian gathering held here October 4-7, 2011. The meeting was the second international gathering of the Global Christian Forum (GCF). The first was held in Kenya in 2007. Participants came from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mennonite leaders reflect positively on Assisi day of prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Release Mennonite World Conference by Ron Rempel, MWC news editor Assisi, Italy (MWC) —Danisa Ndlovu, Mennonite World Conference (MWC) president, and Larry Miller, MWC general secretary, joined with leaders of many other religious communities and several humanist organizations October 27, 2011 for a day of reflection, dialogue and personal prayer in Assisi, Italy, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Christian formation, post-Christendom</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2011/11/28/exploring-christian-formation-post-christendom/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[New book honors legacy of Alan &#38; Eleanor Kreider by Mary E. Klassen News Release Elkhart, Ind. (AMBS) – “For people who think being a Mennonite or Anabaptist is a disadvantage today, Alan and Eleanor Kreider prove it is not true,” James Krabill said at an event celebrating a new book that honors the mission-worker-and-educator [...]]]></description>
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