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Have we learned anything from the John Howard Yoder cover-up?
by Tim Nafziger *The piece originally appeared as as a blog post on TheMennonite.org on December 12, 2015. ---------------------------------- On December 1st, Mennonite Church USA’s (MCUSA) Executive Board staff cabinetannounced the members of a new sexual abuse...
Counting Myself Out: Am I a Christian? (or, “How I Got in Bed with Jesus”)
*This is a cross-post from Rae's new blog "Heart of Thought," which she began "in response to reading about theology, philosophy, and experiences of god without getting the opportunity to theologize, philosophize, and talk about my own daily experiences with god."...
Honoring the Power of Worship
*This post was originally written for Dove's Nest. See the Dove's nest post here. For the last several years, I have been talking with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse about how the worship and teachings of their faith communities impacted their experiences...
Make it safer for sexual violence survivors to name perpetrators
This cross-post by Stephanie Krehbiel originally appeared in the opinion section on The Mennonite's website on October 5, 2015. In August, together with 10 other Mennonite or formerly Mennonite advocates for survivors of sexual violence, I attended the annual...
Survivors Protest CMU’s John Howard Yoder Course Description
As the North American Mennonite church has these past two years (and decades) discussed, discerned and shed tears upon tears regarding John Howard Yoder’s sexual abuse of women, it has been repeated again and again: Yoder’s treatment of women was abusive. It is not to...
“Finding Peace While Fighting PTSD” by Anonymous
The cave of darkness surrounds me, There is no light. I’m wrapped in its strangling cords, So I cannot breathe. Its mirrors reflecting only bitter despair. The ugly reality, The harsh truth finally settling in. As my heart and mouth finally proclaim: I can no longer...
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