by Our Stories Untold | Nov 7, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Rosemarie Miller “Biblical Child Training” and the death of my brother I am a child of the early 1970’s. I was born to parents who both tried to serve the Lord. My father, however, had grown up in a home with a very ungodly, abusive father, and...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 18, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
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 published three posts by Kathy Weins that you can find here, here,...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 13, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
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 with loved ones who have experienced abuse. Which is why it is...
by Our Stories Untold | Nov 15, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Katherine B. Wiens 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 taught to do emotional caretaking, to accommodate...
by Our Stories Untold | Nov 6, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Katherine B. Wiens 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 previously written and published a book that...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Oct 17, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
This piece was originally posted on Women In Theology. Yesterday, at approximately 12:47 pm, I decided to abandon my workday, go home, turn off the internet, eat six slices of the pumpkin pie I baked the night before, cuddle up with my pups on the couch, and call it....
