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...
by intoaccount | Sep 12, 2019 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Believing survivors, Church focus, College & university focus, Ethics, LGBTQ+ justice, Survivors speak, trauma, Uncategorized
By Stephanie Krehbiel, Executive Director Often, when the internal ties that bind folks to a community are broken, that breakage happens quietly and the loss of relationship goes unacknowledged. I would like to acknowledge that this decision has effected a break in my...
by intoaccount | Aug 28, 2019 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Believing survivors, Church focus, Church policy, Clery Act, College & university focus, Education is Power, Ethics, LGBTQ+ justice, Racial justice, theology, trauma, Uncategorized
by Stephanie Krehbiel, Executive DirectorHe loves to volunteer.* That’s the first thing you should know. He is a benefactor, a big donor. He’s retired from his career in education or mental health services or church administration, a career marked with inexplicable...
by intoaccount | Jun 27, 2019 | advocacy, Anabaptism/Mennonites, Believing survivors, Church focus, Church policy, College & university focus, Education is Power, Ethics, LGBTQ+ justice, Survivors speak, theology, Title IX, trauma, Uncategorized
Several weeks ago, we published two narratives on our survivor story blog Our Stories Untold, both written by our Director of Theological Integrity Hilary Jerome Scarsella. In the first narrative, Hilary tells her experience of being raped in 2009 by a fellow student...
by intoaccount | Feb 13, 2019 | Church focus, Commentary: helpful, smart, & a touch of sass, theology
by Stephanie Krehbiel Here’s something that shouldn’t be controversial, but is. The vast majority of church leaders have absolutely no business trying to be leaders in the movement to end sexual abuse. Part of how church leaders mess up–particularly...
by intoaccount | Jan 30, 2019 | advocacy, Anabaptism/Mennonites, Church focus, theology
by Rosemarie Miller and Stephanie Krehbiel Updated 2/6/2019: In the time since the publication of this interview, the editors of Daughters of Promise have retracted the essay that we discuss here in all platforms where they are able to do so. In a Feb. 6 email to Into...
