by intoaccount | Jan 10, 2019 | Anabaptism/Mennonites, Church focus, Survivors speak
Rosemarie Miller is a survivor advocate, speaker, and writer who works to raise awareness about the prevalence of child sexual abuse in faith communities. Raised as a Plain Mennonite, she now works with survivors from a wide range of church backgrounds, including many...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 10, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Suzanne I was sexually assaulted by my father, paternal uncles and paternal grandfather as a child. My mother was aware of the abuse by my father and participated on one occasion. It started when I was a toddler, before the core of who I was had fully coalesced. I...
by Our Stories Untold | Nov 7, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Rosemarie Miller “Biblical Child Training” and the death of my brother I am a child of the early 1970’s. I was born to parents who both tried to serve the Lord. My father, however, had grown up in a home with a very ungodly, abusive father, and...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 18, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Tim Wiens Tim Wiens, husband of survivor and Our Stories Untold contributor, Kathy Wiens, writes here about institutional betrayal in response to sexualized violence in the church. We recently published three posts by Kathy Weins that you can find here, here,...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 13, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Tim Wiens Often, survivors of sexualized violence experience isolation even in their own families. It is far too infrequent that partners and parents and siblings find their way toward solidarity with loved ones who have experienced abuse. Which is why it is...
