by Our Stories Untold | Jan 6, 2015 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Tim Nafziger In the new issue of Mennonite Quarterly Review, five essays look at John Howard Yoder’s systematic project of sexual harassment and abuse of women. Unless otherwise noted, the articles named below are part of the issue. Rachel Waltner Goossen’s essay...
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 Rae Halder | Dec 21, 2014 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
Happy Solstice, dearly beloveds. Today the Winter Solstice has ushered us past the longest night of the year. This darkest day is near Christmas, a day supposedly all about the cheer, the ho-ho-ho, the holly and mistletoe and kissing, and of course the joy of the...
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...
by Rae Halder | Jun 5, 2014 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
Two years ago today I chose to launch Our Stories Untold, a blog with the mission to collect stories of sexualized violence in the Mennonite Church, drawing awareness to this epidemic of violence that is happening all around us, to give a voice to the marginalized,...
