Surviving Kent Peters: An update from Miya
By Miya Three years. It’s been three years since I first learned that I was not the only one who has been affected by the disgusting actions of Kent Peters. I still remember the day and where I was. It...
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The Hard Work of Righteousness: A church repents for its role in the Kaufman...
On September 17, 2023, I accompanied my dear friend Nancy Jensen to a service at New Creation Fellowship Church in Newton, Kansas. Nancy had not been to New Creation for years, but four decades ago,...
View ArticleTorching My Career to Tell the Truth at AMBS
by Susannah Griffith, PhD I knew telling my story would be costly. I didn’t know that it would be this costly. I published my story in Anabaptist World because I saw institutions related to the...
View ArticleFrom a Hesston College survivor: To President Manickam
Over the past six months, I have had the pleasure of working with this student. She has spent years giving her passion, creativity, and time to Hesston College. And recently, she has been a part of the...
View ArticleKent Peters: One survivor’s story of grooming and sexual abuse
by Alyssa On April 2, 2021, Into Account put out a statement of outreach to survivors of sexual abuse by Kent Peters, a church camp counselor, employee of Mennonite Mission Network, and a ubiquitous...
View ArticleHesston College Administration Needs a Reckoning
Hesston College Leaders Still Ignoring Student Safety On January 9, 2023, a member of the Hesston College administration, Vice President of Student Life Deb Roth, sent out an email to the entire campus...
View ArticleKent Peters, Mennonite Mission Network, and One Survivor’s Fight for Truth:...
(For readers new to Miya’s story, begin here with Part One.) How To Make Sense of This? At the time, I felt like nothing good had come out of it. It felt like all the advocating I had done on my own...
View ArticleClergy Sexual Misconduct: Statement on Tom Harder
Into Account Organizational Statement Regarding Tom Harder clergy Sexual Misconduct Stephanie Krehbiel, PhD Pastor Tom Harder Charged with ministerial Sexual Misconduct As the Executive Director of...
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When the Church Walks Away: A Survivor’s Husband Speaks Out
by Tim Wiens Tim Wiens, husband of survivor and Our Stories Untold contributor, Kathy Wiens, writes here about institutional betrayal in response to sexualized violence in the church. We recently...
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When the Church Walks Away: Learning to Stand With the Survivors We Love
by Tim Wiens Often, survivors of sexualized violence experience isolation even in their own families. It is far too infrequent that partners and parents and siblings find their way toward solidarity...
View ArticleWhen the Church Walks Away: A Survivor’s Husband Speaks Out
Tim Wiens, husband of survivor and Our Stories Untold contributor, Kathy Wiens, writes here about institutional betrayal in response to sexualized violence in the church. We recently published three...
View ArticleWhen the Church Walks Away: Learning to Stand With the Survivors We Love
Often, survivors of sexualized violence experience isolation even in their own families. It is far too infrequent that partners and parents and siblings find their way toward solidarity with loved ones...
View ArticleWhen the Church Walks Away: Part Three
This is part three in a series of posts by Kathy Wiens, a sexual violence survivor, and her husband, Tim, who has been her strong ally. The series focuses on her experience of advocating for people...
View ArticleWhen the Church Walks Away: Part Two
One of the hardest things about pushing a church for more accountability is the overwhelming pressure to “make nice.” Most of us feel this pressure, in one way or another. Women in particular are...
View ArticleWhen the Church Walks Away: Part One
This is part one in what will be a series of posts published over the next few weeks by Kathy Wiens, a sexual violence survivor, and her husband, Tim, who has been her strong ally. Kathy has...
View ArticleA Crisis of Faith: In support of Kay Ellen
Sexualized violence doesn’t only hurt those directly victimized. It ripples out and causes all manner of harm to the families, loved ones, colleagues, and broader communities of both victim-survivors...
View ArticleWe Are the Answer We’ve Been Waiting For
This is part 6 in a series of posts by sexual violence survivors and advocates who want the opportunity to respond to the findings released in November by Eastern Mennonite University’s hired...
View Article9 Remaining Questions on EMU’s DSA Report
SERIES INTRODUCTION: Lisa Schirch’s voice will provide the next three parts in this series of posts in which survivors and advocates respond to the findings released in November by Eastern Mennonite...
View ArticleThe Church Continues to Break our Trust
Dear friends, Several weeks ago, my sister Lauren Shifflett announced her decision not to participate in the investigation taking place at Eastern Mennonite University by D. Stafford and Associates and...
View ArticleArchiving a culture of silence
This is the second post in OSU’s current blog series on SNAP Mennonite’s MAP List (Mennonite Abuse Prevention List) and the broader issue of naming church workers (lay or ordained) who are credibly...
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