by intoaccount | Feb 29, 2024 | dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Edelweiss, Evangelicalism, Healing Ministries, Jade Miller, Multiplicity, spiritual abuse, Survivors speak, trafficking
If there’s one thing that really drives my friend and colleague Jade Miller nuts, it’s the idea that Dissociative Identity Disorder is “fascinating.” She’s weary of the entertainment and publishing worlds that exploit and sensationalize the stories of people with DID,...
by intoaccount | Feb 25, 2024 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Believing survivors, Ethics, Kaufman House, New Creation Fellowship Church, social work, spiritual abuse, Survivors speak
On September 17, 2023, I accompanied my dear friend Nancy Jensen to a service at New Creation Fellowship Church in Newton, Kansas. Nancy had not been to New Creation for years, but four decades ago, this small Mennonite church was her world. They were her family, and...
by intoaccount | Aug 24, 2023 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Church focus, misogyny, spiritual abuse, Uncategorized
by Susannah Griffith, PhD I knew telling my story would be costly. I didn’t know that it would be this costly. I published my story in Anabaptist World because I saw institutions related to the Mennonite Church USA ignore and minimize abusive behavior again and again....
by intoaccount | Feb 9, 2023 | Meditation teacher abuse, spiritual abuse, Tantra abuse, Yoga abuse
Into Account has received multiple reports of unethical and abusive behavior perpetrated by David Harshada Wagner, a meditation teacher formerly based in New York City, now living in Ojai, California. These accounts corroborate a pattern of spiritual, sexual, and...
by intoaccount | Jan 6, 2023 | Believing survivors, LYFE Camp, Methodist, spiritual abuse, Survivors speak, United Methodist Church
Click here to read the entire Guidepost Solutions investigation of the LYFE Camp of the Minnesota Annual Conference of United Methodist Church. Reporter 1 Statement A victim of God may Through learning adaption Become a partner of God A victim of God may Through...
by intoaccount | Jul 29, 2022 | Catholicism, Church focus, spiritual abuse, Survivors speak, Workplace/Religious Nonprofit focus
by Keara Parciak “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.” –John 16:12 He was right. I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t expecting to hear from David Haas when I did. I had just started a new job; I had just moved out of state and away from home;...