by Our Stories Untold | Jul 9, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Uncategorized
My experience of childhood sexual abuse left me wounded and my sexuality twisted. But in and through the pain and shame I have found personal healing and strength in ministry. God’s grace has marked me, covered me, and strengthened me. But it has not taken away the...
by Our Stories Untold | Jun 4, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Uncategorized
Today I read another article about another child being killed by another mother’s abusive boyfriend, and I thought about Lisa. I thought about my favorite memory: Ten-year-old, bright, precocious, precious, pig-tailed Lisa laughing hysterically at her discovery...
by Our Stories Untold | May 21, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Uncategorized
During my senior year at a Mennonite College in 1989-90, I was rarely on campus due to a student teaching assignment. Yet I frequently received phone calls whenever I was in my (single occupant) room… phone calls with no one on the other end. This continued...
by Rae Halder | May 6, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Uncategorized
I first read this story at an open mic night at Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa. The theme of the evening was violence against women, and it was the first time I had ever spoken this specific story out-loud. It is one of two stories that I carry with me....
by Our Stories Untold | Feb 17, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Uncategorized
I was 15 when it happened. I would be 16 in about a week. Or maybe two weeks. I have a sense that it happened at the end of November, but it’s really not more than a sense. None of my story is much more than a sense, actually. It’s easy to convince...
by Our Stories Untold | Nov 7, 2012 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Uncategorized
Rape, abortion, birth control, gender roles: all of a sudden conservative men running for office can’t seem to talk enough about these issues. People have been fighting about abortion for many years, and recently everyone seems to want to talk about rape, too....
