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Privilege in Christian Pacifism: What Counts as Violence?
by Sarah Moon **Note from the editor: This is Sarah Moon's third piece in a series about the problems that privilege brings to Christian pacifist movements, originally posted on her Patheos blog . Be sure to check out the first and second posts of the series. -- RH...
Privilege in Christian Pacifism: Fight the Systems, Not the Survivors
by Sarah Moon Editor's Note: This is the second post in a series Sarah Moon wrote about the problems that privilege brings in Christian pacifist circles. It originally appeared on Sarah's Patheos blog on October 27, 2013. The first post can be found on Our Stories...
Privilege in Christian Pacifism: My Life is Not Your Thought Exercise
by Sarah Moon Note from Editor: This is a cross-post by Sarah Moon, which originally appeared on October 23, 2013 at Sarah Over the Moon and was later cross-posted on the Jesus Radicals Website. It's the first post in a 4-part series that will be posted throughout the...
Welcoming Another Fresh Face to “Our Stories Untold”
Last winter I was guided to an amazing woman, Hilary Scarsella. We became acquainted through working on Mennonite Monologues, a story-telling venture administered through the Mennonite Church USA's Women in Leadership Project. Through working with each other and...
Prison, Sexual Assault, and Editing John Howard Yoder: One Man’s Story
by Andy AB Yesterday we posted Andy AB's story of sexual abuse experienced in prison, and how it relates to his work with and understandings of John Howard Yoder's theology and life. His story also appeared in The Mennonite's TMail November 11th issue. We decided...
Telling Our Lives Back Together Again
There is a particular biblical story that drives me nuts. It’s the story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well in the Gospel of John, chapter 4. I won’t recap the whole thing here, but the part that I get stuck on is the funny bit where Jesus tells the...
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