by Our Stories Untold | Mar 28, 2015 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Anonymous A service like the one you had at AMBS is an amazing undertaking. I’m sure it was difficult to plan, and as I’ve seen in your responses on social media, you knew from the start there was no trauma-and-harm-undoing magic answer. What you may already know...
by Our Stories Untold | Mar 4, 2015 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
by Lisa Schirch 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 insightful Afterword. We are honored to...
by Our Stories Untold | Feb 24, 2015 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Kristin Neufeld Epp Editor’s Note: The following poem was first published February 7, 2015, on Kristin’s blog “Praire Daize.” She explained on her original post that her blog has become a platform for her journey with ptsd following childhood sexual...
by Our Stories Untold | Jan 5, 2015 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
by Rachel Waltner Goossen 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,” Mennonite Quarterly Review 89 (January), based on...
by Stephanie Krehbiel | Jul 24, 2014 | Features, Free, Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
** 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 sexuality. In less than a year, I’m scheduled to defend my dissertation...
by Our Stories Untold | Jul 2, 2014 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Carolyn Holderread Heggen The decision of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Elkhart, Ind., and Mennonite Church USA to revisit the legacy of our most influential 20th-century Mennonite theologian, John Howard Yoder, has resulted in...