by intoaccount | Apr 22, 2017 | advocacy, Anabaptism/Mennonites, College & university focus, theology
“Launch Your Future,” EMU’s website shouts in bold capital letters, as they prepare to hand a social work degree to a student who has – by EMU’s own finding – committed sexual violence. Continuing Eastern Mennonite University...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Feb 22, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog, theology
This is part 6 in a series of posts by sexual violence survivors and advocates who want the opportunity to respond to the findings released in November by Eastern Mennonite University’s hired compliance firm D. Stafford and...
by intoaccount | Feb 10, 2017 | advocacy, Church focus, theology
You’re wrong. Let’s talk about why. by Stephanie Krehbiel Because there is an abusive sexual predator in the White House, and when it comes to the skills we need to resist and survive the social tyrannies of his regime, the abuse survivors in your congregation are...
by intoaccount | Jul 6, 2016 | advocacy, Church focus
by Stephanie Krehbiel One of the toughest questions in advocacy work is this: When is it worthwhile to talk to powerful people within the institutions in which you’re trying to enact change, and when is it not? There are no easy answers to that question....
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Jun 28, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
(…or what we didn’t say in an attempt to keep it short, and are now saying anyway because not saying it is being used to discredit our concern) Wow. Here’s a big, hearty thank you! to all of you who responded to our call to action. Your words and energy...