by Our Stories Untold | Jan 10, 2017 | Features, Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
by Lisa Schirch SERIES INTRODUCTION: Lisa Schirch’s voice will provide the next three parts in this series of posts in which survivors and advocates respond to the findings released in November by Eastern Mennonite University’s (EMU’s) hired...
by Stephanie Krehbiel | Aug 23, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog
This is the second post in OSU’s current blog series on SNAP Mennonite’s MAP List (Mennonite Abuse Prevention List) and the broader issue of naming church workers (lay or ordained) who are credibly accused* of perpetrating sexualized violence. Check out...
by Stephanie Krehbiel | Aug 15, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog
Teach and model mutuality between men and women and challenge the ongoing legacy of patriarchy in the church. – From “What we will do…As church institutions,” in “Churchwide Statement on Sexual Abuse.” Passed by Mennonite Church USA Delegate Assembly, Kansas...
by Our Stories Untold | Aug 11, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Jennifer (Jay) Yoder “I’m going to destroy you, and I know exactly how.” That’s the sentence that started a two-year run for me, one from which I’m still recovering, of a feral, terrified, and isolated existence. That’s the sentence that launched my former lover,...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Jul 15, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog
In my role with Our Stories Untold, I have the privilege of knowing that in response to our Call to Action there are people all over the continent who are voicing their concern to those in positions of Mennonite authority about the way Mennonite institutions are...