by Rae Halder | May 8, 2013 | Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog, Stories
I first read this story at an open mic night in April 2013 at Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa. The theme of the evening was violence against women, and it was the first time this story had ever been shared in written or spoken form. There were a lot of...
by Our Stories Untold | May 7, 2013 | Features, Free, Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Catherine Woodiwiss This piece has been re-posted to Our Stories Untold with permission. It is the first in a Sojourners series on sexual violence in Christian communities. To see the article in full, please click over to Sojourners site. Several years ago, Amee...
by Rae Halder | Apr 30, 2013 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
I wrote this piece for the May 2013 issue of The Mennonite. You can see the original post of this article here. Before I clicked the enter button of my public Facebook status, questions plagued my mind: Was I really ready to talk about sex in a public space? Was I...
by Our Stories Untold | Apr 22, 2013 | Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
by Trista Hendren Two years ago, I left my long-time career and began work to empower women and girls through the Divine Feminine. About 6 months ago, I veered out a bit to help tackle rape culture on Facebook. Last month, I began to receive death and rape threats as...
by Hilary Jerome Scarsella | Apr 8, 2013 | Healing Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
This series of cross-posts by Hilary Jerome Scarsella originally appeared on the State of Formation Website. Recently, I’ve spent a lot time with Christian women striving to heal from abuse and from damaging messages they learned from their experiences of...