by Our Stories Untold | Apr 10, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Torah Bontrager Torah Bontrager grew up in an Amish community. As a child, she was sexually abused. The repercussions of the abuse threatened to take her life, but Torah has found ways to live and thrive through a combination of medication and activism. On a...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 15, 2015 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Tim Nafziger *The piece originally appeared as as a blog post on TheMennonite.org on December 12, 2015. ———————————- On December 1st, Mennonite Church USA’s (MCUSA) Executive Board...
by Our Stories Untold | Aug 9, 2015 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Anonymous “There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” —Audre Lorde My assailants told me I was cute, that I was beautiful and small, that I was sweetness, that my hair was soft, that I looked innocent. My assailant told...
by Our Stories Untold | Mar 28, 2015 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Anonymous A service like the one you had at AMBS is an amazing undertaking. I’m sure it was difficult to plan, and as I’ve seen in your responses on social media, you knew from the start there was no trauma-and-harm-undoing magic answer. What you may already know...
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,...
