Naming Violation: Sexualized Violence and LGBTQ Justice
** This piece was originally posted at PinkMenno.org on July 10, 2014. Stay tuned for more reflections on this topic in the coming week. This is a strange time to be writing about Mennonites and...
View ArticleSeminary announces service to acknowledge harm from John Howard Yoder actions
The Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary board of directors along with the president and administrative cabinet are taking steps to acknowledge institutional responsibility for the harm inflicted by...
View ArticleAccepting reality: Putting child sexual abuse on our radar
In 1985, after weeks of intensive training, I started volunteering at the Los Angeles Rape Hotline (taking calls, accompanying victims to court, etc). After about a year on the job, it started getting...
View ArticleThe failure to bind and loose: Responses to Yoder’s sexual abuse
Note from the Editor: This piece is cross-posted from The Mennonite, which excerpted it from a longer article, “’Defanging the Beast’: Mennonite Responses to John Howard Yoder’s Sexual Abuse,”...
View ArticleFeminist organizing challenge institutions’ silence on Yoder
In the new issue of Mennonite Quarterly Review, five essays look at John Howard Yoder’s systematic project of sexual harassment and abuse of women. Unless otherwise noted, the articles named below are...
View ArticleJohn Howard Yoder: My Untold Story after 36 years of Silence
To Rachel Waltner Goosen, whose historical overview in The Mennonite meticulously recounts John Howard Yoder’s true legacy, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your literary piece is masterful....
View ArticleUnpacking the lies: What being queer has to do with sexual abuse
In the past week two major Mennonite news items were released into the web-sphere: the long-awaited January edition of the Mennonite Quarterly Review devoted to sexual abuse in the Mennonite Church and...
View ArticleGraffiti art illustrates how to break the cycle
We are pleased to feature David Hayward, a graffiti artist and blogger otherwise known as nakedpastor. On a recent blog post, he explains how he was inspired to draw this cartoon after reading Sharon...
View ArticleJohn Howard Yoder’s sexual abuse: Asking the wrong question
Editor’s note: This is a cross-post from Hillary’s blog, www.gatheringthestones.com, first published on January 30, 2015. Even though this week a Goshen College student was slapped by Jennifer Lopez,...
View ArticleTo the Next Generation of Pacifist Theologians
In a new book of essays by Yoderian theologians, edited by J. Denny Weaver and entitled “John Howard Yoder: Radical Theologian,” peace and justice scholar and activist, Lisa Schirch writes an...
View ArticlePink Menno presents “On the Way: Dis-Covering Diversity” in Kansas City
(Official Pink Menno press release) At the Mennonite Church USA (MCUSA) bi-annual convention (in Kansas City, MO), Pink Menno will convene a symposium focused on intersectionality. “On the Way:...
View ArticleOur Stories Untold at Kansas City
Are you going to be at convention next week? Our Stories Untold—also known as Barbra, Hilary, and myself—is extremely excited to be present in a large way at the Mennonite Church USA convention in...
View ArticleLament for the institutionalized church: Trauma, rage, and hope from Kansas City
Rae wrote a version of this piece, originally posted on Facebook, late on Friday, July 3, after attending the Mennonite Church USA’s “Service of Lament and Hope” for survivors of sexual abuse. The...
View ArticleTrauma and Lack of Nuance
“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” —Audre Lorde My assailants told me I was cute, that I was beautiful and small, that I was sweetness, that my...
View ArticleMake it safer for sexual violence survivors to name perpetrators
This cross-post by Stephanie Krehbiel originally appeared in the opinion section on The Mennonite‘s website on October 5, 2015. In August, together with 10 other Mennonite or formerly Mennonite...
View ArticleHave we learned anything from the John Howard Yoder cover-up?
*The piece originally appeared as as a blog post on TheMennonite.org on December 12, 2015. ———————————- On December 1st, Mennonite Church USA’s (MCUSA) Executive Board staff cabinetannounced the...
View ArticleComing home to our bodies: trauma and justice
This piece is a cross-post, originally published on January 29, 2016, on the Brethren Mennonite Council website. My senior year of high school, I was talking to a school counselor about an experience I...
View ArticleHow storytelling helped me heal | Healing from Sexual Abuse Vlog, Ep. 5
<—– This is a photo of the trees and me being supermodel Awesome. Down below is a video (vlog post) of the trees and me being not supermodel but superhero AWESOME. Seriously. One year ago there was...
View ArticleThe victim narrative on sex-trafficking: An interview with Yvonne Zimmerman...
What is sex trafficking? Is it different from prostitution? Is it slavery? Who is involved in sex trafficking? Why does it exist? What does it mean for survivor communities to talk about sex...
View ArticleThe victim narrative on sex-trafficking: An interview with Yvonne Zimmerman...
Yesterday we posted part 1 of a 3 part interview series between Stephanie Krehbiel and Yvonne Zimmerman on the narrative of sex-trafficking. Zimmerman is a veteran of the sex trafficking debates. Her...
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