by intoaccount | Jul 29, 2021 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Believing survivors, Church focus, Church policy, Ethics
Fire at Rainbow Mennonite Church: A Study in Organizational Trauma What exactly happened? In 2019, in Kansas City, Kansas, a woman named Kimberly reported a church employee had been abusive in the context of an intimate partner relationship to leaders at Rainbow...
by intoaccount | Jul 29, 2021 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Ethics
Rainbow Mennonite Church is one example of a congregation that has suffered needless trauma due to its leaders’ refusal to take responsibility for immoral and harmful decisions. When congregants make allegations of abuse and harm, many churches take actions based in...
by intoaccount | Apr 2, 2021 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Believing survivors
Kent Peters Statement Erin Bergen, Director of Student Advocacy Into Account has received numerous reports from young women who describe grooming, sexual harassment, and sexual abuse perpetrated by Kent Peters of Newton, Kansas. Some of them reported that they were...
by intoaccount | Oct 22, 2020 | Abuse Tracker, Anabaptism/Mennonites, Believing survivors, Church focus, College & university focus, Ethics, LGBTQ+ justice
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by intoaccount | Feb 5, 2020 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Believing survivors, Church focus, Church policy, College & university focus, Commentary: helpful, smart, & a touch of sass, Education is Power, Ethics, LGBTQ+ justice, Survivors speak, Uncategorized
I’m thrilled to welcome back anti-violence expert Jay Yoder to the Into Account team. While this piece describes instances of threats of violence against queer folks at Goshen College, I think many LGBTQ+ people who experienced Christian schools will recognize...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Oct 21, 2019 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Church focus, Commentary: helpful, smart, & a touch of sass
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella, Director of Theological IntegrityUPDATED the evening of 10/21/19 The Mennonite put out an article today on details emerging around the AMBS search committee’s decision to appoint David Boshart the next president of the seminary. We’ll have...
