by Our Stories Untold | Dec 31, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” Rumi The words of Rumi the Sufi poet have always attracted my mystic mind, and as I reflect on the transition of 2013 to 2014 I’m once again struck...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 16, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Uncategorized
“Consent requires that a person have all the necessary information to make a decision and the power to choose and have that choice respected by others. The possibility of authentic consent rests upon equality of power in a relationship. Consent should never be...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 4, 2013 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Claire DeBerg Our Stories Untold is honored to cross-post–with permission–a letter to Tamar from Claire DeBerg, originally posted on Mennonite Women Voices, the blog of Mennonite Women USA. ______________________ The following is a message I, Claire...
by Our Stories Untold | Nov 29, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Uncategorized
We all carry secrets in our lives. Stuff we don’t want others to know about. Some are small secrets that no one really would even care to know. Like our favorite brand of silk underwear, or our favorite blanket we clutch when we fall asleep. But there may be other...
by intoaccount | Nov 28, 2013 | Call To Prayer For Sexual Healing, Our Stories Untold Blog
Exploring a past riddled with abuse and sexualized violence is not a pleasant task, nor is reading and writing about the dark pain that humans impose on other creatures of this world. It’s easy to get caught up in the misery and pain; to repeat the storyline of...
by Our Stories Untold | Nov 18, 2013 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Sarah Moon **Editor’s Note: This is Sarah Moon’s fourth piece from a series on some of the problems that unevaluated privilege can cause in Christian pacifist movements. The original post appeared on Sarah’s Patheos blog on November 6, 2013. Be...
