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“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...
What Rape Culture and Modesty Culture Have In Common
by Faith Beauchemin **The following piece was sent to me by an Our Stories Untold reader. I found it so compelling that I received permission to repost it from Faith Beauchemin’s blog Roses and Revolutionaries, a blog well worth taking a look at. It was originally...
John Howard Yoder Discussion: A Lesson in Sensitivity & Victim-Blaming
I've purposefully remained silent about the John Howard Yoder issue. But I was shocked yesterday to see a poll on the topic presented by The Mennonite. The Mennonite posted a statement of their conviction and are now letting people respond through a poll question: “It...
John Howard Yoder: A symbolic tip of the iceberg of sexism
by Charletta Erb **Charletta Erb continues the discussion of John Howard Yoder and his abuses against women in the Mennonite Church. This is a cross-post from The Mennonite, originally published August 13, 2013. At 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoons, I am committed...
How Ancient Myths and Ritual Leadership Still Promote Sexualized Violence Today
by Patricia Frisch, Ph.D. *Note from the editor, Rachel Halder: Patricia Frisch first contacted me about her book, Polarized, a Bipolar Memoir. She explained her story of growing up Catholic, studying, and working in the Church as a lay individual woman until...
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