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Brought Into the Sun: Speaking Truth to Mennonite Colleges
by Into Account Staff Erin Bergen, Student Advocacy Coordinator Stephanie Krehbiel, Executive Director Hilary Jerome Scarsella, Director of Theological Integrity with video featuring Rebecca Schrag, Erin Bergen, and Anneliese Baer Your silence today is a pond where...
On Whose Backs?: Why We Oppose the Selection of David Boshart as President of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Several weeks ago, we published two narratives on our survivor story blog Our Stories Untold, both written by our Director of Theological Integrity Hilary Jerome Scarsella. In the first narrative, Hilary tells her experience of being raped in 2009 by a fellow student...
Introducing Erin Bergen: Our New Student Advocacy Coordinator
by Erin Bergen Hey y’all, I am so excited to start working with you. I want you all to get a feel for what my position is going to be and how I can help with whatever your path looks like. I asked my lovely partner to interview me, because I suffer from chronic...
Victim or Survivor: Respecting Our Choices
by Kathy Wiens, Chair, Into Account Board of Directors I was recently at a physical therapy appointment. In the paperwork, they asked for my occupation. I dutifully filled in the blank with "author and speaker." Even though my work entails more than this, I had to...
Godly men, be quiet.
by Stephanie Krehbiel Here's something that shouldn't be controversial, but is. The vast majority of church leaders have absolutely no business trying to be leaders in the movement to end sexual abuse. Part of how church leaders mess up--particularly in strongly...
God is not an abuser: Responding to Daughters of Promise
by Rosemarie Miller and Stephanie Krehbiel Updated 2/6/2019: In the time since the publication of this interview, the editors of Daughters of Promise have retracted the essay that we discuss here in all platforms where they are able to do so. In a Feb. 6 email to Into...
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