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Do Not Let Your Heart Beat Hope
by Jennifer (Jay) Yoder “I’m going to destroy you, and I know exactly how.” That’s the sentence that started a two-year run for me, one from which I’m still recovering, of a feral, terrified, and isolated existence. That’s the sentence that launched my former lover,...
Mennonite Bodies, Sexual Ethics: Women Challenge John Howard Yoder
by Rachel Waltner Goossen Many readers of Our Stories Untold are likely familiar with aspects of the long, troubling history -- dating to the 1970s, '80s, and '90s -- of theologian John Howard Yoder's sexual abuse of women, and of myriad failures among Mennonite...
So You Need an Investigation
Often, organizations, churches, or institutions find themselves thinking about their cultures, policies, and practices surrounding sexualized and spiritual violence because they have learned of violence in their own context. Many times, there is only a real...
Save the apology, we need accountability: spoken word by M.G.
On Monday of this week, M.G. shared her experience of the rape and abuse she survived while a student at Eastern Mennonite University, as well as the university's response when she reported the violence. If you read the story, you know that M.G's courage and...
We Can Do Better: how my report of rape at a Christian school made things worse
by M.G. This post has been a long time coming, not that I haven’t written about it or spoken about it before, but I’ve never written about it or spoken about it in this depth, to this wide of an audience. As more comes to light about Eastern Mennonite University’s...
Dr. Dwight Krehbiel’s Letter to Patty Shelly: a response to our Call to Action
In my role with Our Stories Untold, I have the privilege of knowing that in response to our Call to Action there are people all over the continent who are voicing their concern to those in positions of Mennonite authority about the way Mennonite institutions are...
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