by Our Stories Untold | Feb 9, 2014 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Kristin Neufeld Epp Editor’s Note: The following piece was first published February 4, 2014 on Kristin’s blog “Praire Daize.” She also submitted a sexual abuse story to our stories section which can be seen here. no feeling is final. -rilke...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 31, 2013 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” Rumi The words of Rumi the Sufi poet have always attracted my mystic mind, and as I reflect on the transition of 2013 to 2014 I’m once again struck...
by Our Stories Untold | Nov 12, 2013 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog, Stories
by Andy AB Yesterday we posted Andy AB’s story of sexual abuse experienced in prison, and how it relates to his work with and understandings of John Howard Yoder’s theology and life. His story also appeared in The Mennonite’s TMail November 11th...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Nov 11, 2013 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
There is a particular biblical story that drives me nuts. It’s the story of Jesus meeting the Samaritan woman at the well in the Gospel of John, chapter 4. I won’t recap the whole thing here, but the part that I get stuck on is the funny bit where Jesus tells the...
by Our Stories Untold | Oct 10, 2013 | Features, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Hannah Heinzekehr ** This is a crosspost written by Hannah Heinzekehr of The Femonite, a blog blending interests in Mennonite theology and faith and feminism. It was originally posted here on October 8, 2013. If you listen to the radio and/or watch prime time...