by Our Stories Untold | Mar 4, 2015 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
by Lisa Schirch In a new book of essays by Yoderian theologians, edited by J. Denny Weaver and entitled “John Howard Yoder: Radical Theologian,” peace and justice scholar and activist, Lisa Schirch writes an insightful Afterword. We are honored to...
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 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,...
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 Rae Halder | Nov 5, 2012 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 70 percent of reported sexual assaults occurred in the residence of the victim, the offender, or the residence of another individual related to the victim or offender. This is a startling statistic. We would be foolish to...
