by Our Stories Untold | Dec 10, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Suzanne I was sexually assaulted by my father, paternal uncles and paternal grandfather as a child. My mother was aware of the abuse by my father and participated on one occasion. It started when I was a toddler, before the core of who I was had fully coalesced. I...
by Our Stories Untold | Nov 7, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Rosemarie Miller “Biblical Child Training” and the death of my brother I am a child of the early 1970’s. I was born to parents who both tried to serve the Lord. My father, however, had grown up in a home with a very ungodly, abusive father, and...
by Our Stories Untold | Apr 10, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Torah Bontrager Torah Bontrager grew up in an Amish community. As a child, she was sexually abused. The repercussions of the abuse threatened to take her life, but Torah has found ways to live and thrive through a combination of medication and activism. On a...
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 Our Stories Untold | Jul 25, 2016 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Stories
by M.G. This post has been a long time coming, not that I haven’t written about it or spoken about it before, but I’ve never written about it or spoken about it in this depth, to this wide of an audience. As more comes to light about Eastern Mennonite University’s...
