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Reader, Rainbow Mennonite Could Be Your Church
Fire at Rainbow Mennonite Church: A Study in Organizational Trauma What exactly happened? In 2019, in Kansas City, Kansas, a woman named Kimberly reported a church employee had been abusive in the context of an intimate partner relationship to leaders at Rainbow...
Call to Courage
Rainbow Mennonite Church is one example of a congregation that has suffered needless trauma due to its leaders’ refusal to take responsibility for immoral and harmful decisions. When congregants make allegations of abuse and harm, many churches take actions based in...
Kent Peters Statement
Kent Peters Statement Erin Bergen, Director of Student Advocacy Into Account has received numerous reports from young women who describe grooming, sexual harassment, and sexual abuse perpetrated by Kent Peters of Newton, Kansas. Some of them reported that they were...
To Come Out, Or Not to Come Out: The Closet™
Being Out is Not Always Safe I'm Jay Yoder, and I'm out as heck: I'm out as a dyke-y kinky queer. I'm out as a genderqueer AFAB. I'm out as a Complex Trauma, rape, molestation, stalking, abuse and religious trama survivor. I'm out as a mental health advocate. I'm out...
Clergy Sexual Misconduct: Statement on Tom Harder
Into Account Organizational Statement Regarding Tom Harder clergy Sexual Misconduct Stephanie Krehbiel, PhD Pastor Tom Harder Charged with ministerial Sexual Misconduct As the Executive Director of Into Account, I was disturbed to learn recently that in 2011, Western...
Into Account Statement on John Rempel
Our primary commitment is to make ourselves available to survivors who want strategic support as they navigate their options following an experience of sexual violence, whether that experience happened recently or decades past.