Two Bridgefolk board members, Margaret Pfeil and Gerald Schlabach, are among four writers who suggest positive practices to “take up” for Lent in order to move beyond typical practices of “giving up.” Schlabach suggests ways to “Love the Enemy in Your Pew” by inviting fellow Catholics with whom one most disagrees to share their back story face to face. Pfeil invites readers to “Feed the Hungry with Local Food.” In her article she recounts how the Catholic Worker community in South Bend, Indiana, has created a grocery co-op in its mostly African-American community and made baked goods from nearby Amish communities a popular item.
The article is in the February 20 issue of the Jesuit magazine America and is available online to subscribers at http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=13259.