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Committing Sexual Violence No Impediment to EMU Social Work Degree
"Launch Your Future," EMU's website shouts in bold capital letters, as they prepare to hand a social work degree to a student who has - by EMU's own finding - committed sexual violence. Continuing Eastern Mennonite University (EMU)'s culture of staggering mishandling...
Preaching Peace and Silencing Survivors
The author of today’s post, Erin Bergen, is a leader in the survivor-led movement against sexualized violence at Mennonite colleges. As a student at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, she helped found the Functional Immediate Response Student Safety Team (FIRSST), a...
“I Believe You” by Anonymous
Mennonite children are often taught to be “seen and not heard,” to “honor thy father and mother,” and the merits of a “quiet and gentle spirit.” Family secrets run rampant, monsters riding piggy-back on the shoulders of children. Monsters love dark, secret places. ...
We Are the Answer We’ve Been Waiting For
This is part 6 in a series of posts by sexual violence survivors and advocates who want the opportunity to respond to the findings released in November by Eastern Mennonite University’s hired compliance firm D. Stafford and...
To social justice Christians who think that sexualized violence in your church is a trivial thing to focus on because there are “more urgent issues right now”
You’re wrong. Let’s talk about why. by Stephanie Krehbiel Because there is an abusive sexual predator in the White House, and when it comes to the skills we need to resist and survive the social tyrannies of his regime, the abuse survivors in your congregation are...
MC USA Sexualized Violence Response Assessment: Cultures & Contexts in a Harrisonburg Abuse Case
Stephanie Krehbiel, PhD and Jennifer A. Yoder, as co-directors of Into Account, have assessed the responses of Mennonite Church USA, Virginia Mennonite Conference, Eastern Mennonite University, and Lindale Mennonite Church to sexualized violence. View assessment here...
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.