by Rae Halder | Mar 24, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Steubenville
“Would you say destroying the planet is just as bad as raping a person? Is putting toxic chemicals into our water just as bad as putting toxic chemicals into a person so you can rape them?” Bombarded by these questions (plus many more) from a new acquaintance at a...
by Our Stories Untold | Jan 25, 2013 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
Sexualized violence and abuse is often covered up due to shame, embarrassment, or just plain ignorance in how to handle the problem. One contributing story on Our Stories Untold describes how a woman’s Mennonite family purposefully hid her abuse from the rest of...
by Rae Halder | Jan 4, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Womenundersiege
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...
by Rae Halder | Sep 22, 2012 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Womenundersiege
This article originally appeared on Women Under Siege’s website. Please click here to see the original post. By Rachel Halder/Intern — September 21, 2012 A young woman about my age sits across from me at a table in a large house converted into an Ecuadoran...
by Our Stories Untold | Aug 23, 2012 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Mark Koenig This post was originally published by “Unbound: An Interactive Journal of Christian Social Justice.” Although this is about PCUSA’s mission, I encourage Mennonites and those of other faiths to look at this example and think of ways...
