by intoaccount | May 31, 2024 | advocacy, Believing survivors, Church focus, Church policy, Ethics, LGBTQ+ justice, spiritual abuse, theology
Pastor Jud Hendrix Creates Insular Secretive Environment: Targets Congregation with Sexualized Violence Note: when church officials initially discovered his misconduct in 2011, (now former) Pastor Jud Hendrix voluntarily renounced his ordination, which protected him...
by intoaccount | Jun 24, 2022 | advocacy, Anabaptism/Mennonites, Believing survivors, Ethics, Survivors speak, trauma, Workplace/Religious Nonprofit focus
The Contents of My Story May Disturb You Hi, my name is *Miya, and I am a survivor of Kent Peters. This is my story. Before I begin, I want to give a content/trigger warning to readers. The following post will include the following topics: grooming boundary crossing...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Oct 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
The survivor who wrote the “I Am Mine” series has done the world of progressive Christianity an incredible service. Along with the other 40+ survivors who have so far come forward to report abuse by David Hass (and, yes, the number continues to rise), she has offered...
by Our Stories Untold | Oct 6, 2020 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Anonymous What comes next is hard. What comes next is difficult to describe. What comes next is my words trying to convey something so indescribable, so confusing. The only description I can offer is imaging the earth shifting off of its axis and never...
by Our Stories Untold | Oct 5, 2020 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Anonymous Selah. I don’t know how to begin this story, but I know in my bones that it needs to be told. I’ll begin by saying that I don’t know how to keep myself safe by writing all of this down, but I know I have to confront this mountain. The threat of...