by Rae Halder | Jun 2, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Svmc Blog
After launching this blog on June 5, 2012 and spending nearly 4 years working for awareness and healing around the topic of sexualized violence in the Mennonite Church, it is time for me (Rachel Halder) to step down from this blog so I can step up to other projects...
by Rae Halder | Feb 7, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog
<—– This is a photo of the trees and me being supermodel Awesome. Down below is a video (vlog post) of the trees and me being not supermodel but superhero AWESOME. Seriously. One year ago there was NO WAY you would have found me talking this openly...
by Rae Halder | Mar 12, 2015 | Free, Our Stories Untold Blog
Walking back to the retreat house from a morning mass service at St. Benedict’s Snowmass monastery, Buzz saddled up to me and asked if he could disrupt my silence. It was day 5 of a 10 day semi-silent centering prayer meditation retreat. Buzz and I had conversed...
by Rae Halder | Jan 12, 2015 | Our Stories Untold Blog
In the past week two major Mennonite news items were released into the web-sphere: the long-awaited January edition of the Mennonite Quarterly Review devoted to sexual abuse in the Mennonite Church and particularly focused on John Howard Yoder’s sexual abuse of...
