by Our Stories Untold | Jan 13, 2017 | Features, Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
by Lisa Schirch SERIES INTRODUCTION: This is Part 4 in a series of posts by those who want the opportunity to respond to the findings released in November by Eastern Mennonite University’s hired compliance firm D. Stafford and Associates. Lisa shares the personal and...
by Our Stories Untold | Jan 10, 2017 | Features, Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
by Lisa Schirch SERIES INTRODUCTION: Lisa Schirch’s voice will provide the next three parts in this series of posts in which survivors and advocates respond to the findings released in November by Eastern Mennonite University’s (EMU’s) hired...
by Our Stories Untold | Nov 14, 2016 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
by Janice Batts Editor’s Note: I met Janice Batts on Facebook messaging. She was very angry with the Mennonite Church. She was angry like Jesus-turning-over-tables-in-the-temple kind of angry. My good white Mennonite privilege was offended. I was repulsed by her...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Sep 11, 2015 | Features, Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
As the North American Mennonite church has these past two years (and decades) discussed, discerned and shed tears upon tears regarding John Howard Yoder’s sexual abuse of women, it has been repeated again and again: Yoder’s treatment of women was abusive. It is not to...
by Rae Halder | Mar 12, 2015 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
Walking back to the retreat house from a morning mass service at St. Benedict’s Snowmass monastery, Buzz saddled up to me and asked if he could disrupt my silence. It was day 5 of a 10 day semi-silent centering prayer meditation retreat. Buzz and I had conversed...
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...
