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“Prison, Sexual Assault, and Editing John Howard Yoder: One Man’s Story” by Andy AB
A lot of people are talking about John Howard Yoder’s harassment, abuse, and assault of women. Even the New York Times published an article about him. Some of the articles and blog posts have been defensive, trying to explain Yoder as a man, putting his actions in...
Don’t Call It Consent: Being Groomed for Sex
by Kristi **This piece is a cross-post from the "Surviving Therapist Abuse" website run by Kristi, originally published on August 18, 2009. The following bio was taken from the site: Kristi was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her eclectic background...
On Two-Year-Old’s and Rape Culture
by Hannah Heinzekehr ** This is a crosspost written by Hannah Heinzekehr of The Femonite, a blog blending interests in Mennonite theology and faith and feminism. It was originally posted here on October 8, 2013. If you listen to the radio and/or watch prime time...
The Politics of John Howard Yoder: 41 years of tiptoeing around power
by Tim Nafziger *Editor's note: The following post is a cross-post from Tim Nafziger's blog on The Mennonite. It was originally published on 7 September 2013, and has been reposted with permission. - RH The last two months have seen a growing number of articles on...
“Turning on the Light” by Kristin Neufeld Epp
“quickly i turned on the light and saw him sitting there.” there’s a nightmare in my closet, mercer mayer a child’s first seven years of life are spent absorbing the world and sorting it into blissful categories of good and bad. faces smiling (good), graffiti on a...
An Everyday Hero: The Untold Story of Tamar
by Meghan Good Editor's Note: Yesterday afternoon I was informed that something very exciting happened at Albany Mennonite Church: Pastor Meghan Good preached a sermon on rape and sexualized violence in the church, using the story of Tamar as an example. The sermon...
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