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Purity, lust and religion: How Christianity confuses rape with sex
When I was 15-years-old I was invited to attend a Baptist summer camp. Growing up Mennonite I had never been exposed to overt “savior” language, nor had I previously received such direct and controlling gendered messages. At this camp I was told it was a women’s...
What would you do to end rape in 2013?
When I got annoyed with the fact that sexualized violence is a stigmatized and sensitive subject in the Mennonite Church, I began this blog. When Gloria Steinem learned that rape was a widely used and unspoken method of torture, and a result of the Holocaust, she...
Masculinity and Violence (or Please Stop Saying WRONG things about God)
by Joanna Harader Note from the Editor: This is a cross-post by Rev. Joanna Harader, which originally appeared on Spacious Faith on December 18, 2012. I believe the conversation about gun violence and masculinity is important, and that this phenomena also ties into...
Rape is Rape: How the Culture of Shaming, Stigma, and Victim Blaming is Hurting Us
Yesterday I became overwhelmed by the news. First of all, the stories from Newtown, Connecticut are enough to make anyone’s stomach churn. Then my pain doubled when I opened a New York Times piece on a small town rape incident. A teenage girl, only 16-years-old, was...
The Woman on the Road to Jericho
This piece was written by Rachel Halder for Unbound: An Interactive Journal of Christian Social Justice, in honor of the United Nation's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It was published on November 28, 2012 and cross-posted on Our...
“Legitimate Rape” by Anonymous
Rape, abortion, birth control, gender roles: all of a sudden conservative men running for office can't seem to talk enough about these issues. People have been fighting about abortion for many years, and recently everyone seems to want to talk about rape, too....
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