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Exploring Identity: Who Am I? | Healing from Sexual Abuse Vlog, Ep. 2
Thank you everyone for your support, kind words, and thoughts that were shared yesterday. I felt so loved and held by this amazing community. If you didn't see yesterday's vlog on vulnerability, it's not too late to check it out here. As I mention at the beginning of...
Video Vulnerability | Healing from Sexual Abuse, Ep.1
I've been debating whether or not to post this for the past 24+ hours. To say that it is embarrassing is an understatement. I showed my closest friend the video below, asking their honest opinion on whether or not I should launch a vlogging (video blog) series for Our...
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...
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.