by intoaccount | Mar 7, 2024 | Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, Anabaptism/Mennonites, Mennonite Mission Network, Workplace/Religious Nonprofit focus
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 was March 25, 2021. The phone call with the news that Kent Peters...
by intoaccount | Feb 29, 2024 | dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Edelweiss, Evangelicalism, Healing Ministries, Jade Miller, Multiplicity, spiritual abuse, Survivors speak, trafficking
If there’s one thing that really drives my friend and colleague Jade Miller nuts, it’s the idea that Dissociative Identity Disorder is “fascinating.” She’s weary of the entertainment and publishing worlds that exploit and sensationalize the stories of people with DID,...
by intoaccount | Feb 25, 2024 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Believing survivors, Ethics, Kaufman House, New Creation Fellowship Church, social work, spiritual abuse, Survivors speak
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, this small Mennonite church was her world. They were her family, and...
by intoaccount | Aug 24, 2023 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Church focus, misogyny, spiritual abuse, Uncategorized
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 Mennonite Church USA ignore and minimize abusive behavior again and again....
by intoaccount | Jun 22, 2023 | Evangelicalism, Hillsong, megachurches, misogyny, Survivors speak, Transformation Church
They said I slept with two married men. One of them I did not sleep with, the other one raped me. –Alexandria Moore, speaking about the leadership of Transformation Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma When Tulsa musician Alexandria Moore first recorded a...
