by Rae Halder | Jun 2, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog, theology
After launching this blog on June 5, 2012 and spending nearly 4 years working for awareness and healing around the topic of sexualized violence in the Mennonite Church, it is time for me (Rachel Halder) to step down from this blog so I can step up to other projects...
by Rae Halder | Nov 19, 2015 | Features, Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
*This is a cross-post from Rae’s new blog “Heart of Thought,” which she began “in response to reading about theology, philosophy, and experiences of god without getting the opportunity to theologize, philosophize, and talk about my own daily...
by Stephanie Krehbiel | Oct 6, 2015 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
This cross-post by Stephanie Krehbiel originally appeared in the opinion section on The Mennonite’s website on October 5, 2015. In August, together with 10 other Mennonite or formerly Mennonite advocates for survivors of sexual violence, I attended the...
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 Our Stories Untold | Jun 1, 2015 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
(Official Pink Menno press release) At the Mennonite Church USA (MCUSA) bi-annual convention (in Kansas City, MO), Pink Menno will convene a symposium focused on intersectionality. “On the Way: Dis-Covering Diversity” will be held in Pink Menno’s hospitality space in...
by Stephanie Krehbiel | May 31, 2015 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
This interview originally appeared on Issue 2015, VOL. 69 of Mennonite Life, a Bethel College publication. I first encountered Ruth Krall’s work at the same time that many Mennonites did, in 2013, with the release of the third volume of her online series of books on...
