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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>Why footwashing – a testimony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read with interest your announcement of the Foot Washing Conference to be held this summer. I am a retired Mennonite Minister in Des Allemands, LA. I would love to attend your conference.  But that is not possible.  Instead I will share this testimony:
Among my friends was Father &#8220;Mac&#8221; McCallion, the priest at St. Gertrude&#8217;s Catholic [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<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>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2010/05/29/bridgefolk-director-calls-new-book-the-fruit-of-much-interchurch-dialogue/</link>
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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&#8217;s Gerald Schlabach in Commonweal magazine</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2007/06/05/bridgefolks-gerald-schlabach-in-commonweal-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridgefolk Executive Director Gerald Schlabach has just had an article published in Commonweal magazine, entitled &#8220;You Converted to What? One Mennonite&#8217;s Journey.&#8221; In it he offers nine &#8220;non-Roman&#8221; reasons why he became Roman Catholic, even while remaining Mennonite in many ways. Commonweal has granted Schlabach permission to post the article on his web site. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two new books by Bridgefolk (good conference prep!)</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2006/06/07/951/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 17:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year Herald Press published two  books written or edited by Bridgefolk board members Marlene Kropf and Gerald  Schlabach.  The themes of peacemaking and worship at God&#8217;s table coincide with  the theme of our upcoming conference: Making Peace: At Table, in the  World.   Dip into one or both of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eucharist Is &#8220;God&#8217;s Absolute &#8216;No&#8217; to Violence&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2005/03/11/eucharist-is-gods-absolute-no-to-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3rd Lenten Sermon by Father Cantalamessa
VATICAN CITY, MARCH 11, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Thanks to the Eucharist, &#8220;God&#8217;s absolute &#8216;no&#8217; to violence, pronounced on the cross, is kept alive through the centuries,&#8221; said the Pontifical Household preacher in a Lenten meditation.
With his sacrifice, &#8220;Christ defeated violence, not opposing it with greater violence, but suffering it and laying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Handing Us Back Ourselves:” On the Rediscovery of Mennonite Spirituality</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2002/07/30/handing-us-back-ourselves-on-the-rediscovery-of-mennonite-spirituality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Mary Schertz
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
An updated version of this article entitled
&#8220;Seeking the Taproot of Anabaptist Spirituality&#8221;
is now available at
http://www.cascadiapublishinghouse.com/dsm/autumn04/schema.htm
Have we, as Mennonite people of faith, &#8220;lost our spirituality,&#8221; or perhaps never claimed a spirituality and, consequently, do we need to look to other traditions, such as Catholic spirituality, in order to recover this vital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning the Ancient Rhythms of Prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.bridgefolk.net/2001/01/08/learning-the-ancient-rhythms-of-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why charismatics and evangelicals, among others, are flocking to communities famous for set prayers and worshiping by the clock
by Arthur Paul Boers
Christianity Today
The place was overcrowded and noisy, and the food was unimpressive. Meals and meetings were held outside or in tents, depending on the weather. Visitors slept (and many snored loudly) in tents and [...]]]></description>
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