by Our Stories Untold | Nov 14, 2016 | child sexual abuse, Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
by Janice Batts Editor’s Note: I met Janice Batts on Facebook messaging. She was very angry with the Mennonite Church. She was angry like Jesus-turning-over-tables-in-the-temple kind of angry. My good white Mennonite privilege was offended. I was repulsed by her...
by Our Stories Untold | Sep 28, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Kishundra D. King This is the third post in OSU’s fall blog series on sexualized violence and race. Today’s post is offered by Kishundra D. King. She is both a crisis counselor who works with Black women and children survivors of abuse and a researcher...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Nov 1, 2015 | Our Stories Untold Blog
*This post was originally written for Dove’s Nest. See the Dove’s nest post here. For the last several years, I have been talking with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse about how the worship and teachings of their faith communities impacted their...
by Rae Halder | Jun 5, 2014 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
Two years ago today I chose to launch Our Stories Untold, a blog with the mission to collect stories of sexualized violence in the Mennonite Church, drawing awareness to this epidemic of violence that is happening all around us, to give a voice to the marginalized,...
by Our Stories Untold | Apr 21, 2014 | Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Angela Marie Carter Butterfly in Reverse (a poem from my upcoming book, Memory Chose A Woman’s Body) I had wings. Once. They seemed no different than human hands until plucked. Reluctantly. Along the mantelpiece, beside a twenty dollar bill— the world,...
