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To MC USA Executive Board: Don’t feed your climate of abuse. You need experts, not enablers.
Into Account calls on Mennonite Church USA to remove Virginia Mennonite Conference Minister Clyde Kratz from the search committee for the new Executive Director of Mennonite Church USA, and to replace him with a member MC USA Panel on Sexual Abuse Prevention. Take...
Goodbye
This piece is dedicated to queer folks, especially queer people of color, and survivors of sexual and spiritual abuse - may we have spaces to thrive and honor all of our identities. On the one year anniversary of the mass murder at Pulse Nightclub, Into Account...
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...
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.