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 intoaccount | Oct 2, 2018 | Survivors speak
by Hayley Brooks The past few weeks for me have largely been a series of remembering moments I’d like to consciously forget but that my body holds onto. The way the body recalls is often miraculous to me, but I also often wonder what my body is trying to tell me by...
by Our Stories Untold | Jan 8, 2018 | Our Stories Untold Blog, Stories
by Chrissy Maruffi For years, it ate away at me inside. Disgusted in myself for not being more forceful, for not standing my ground. Ashamed, believing it was my fault because, well, I was part of it. I knew it was wrong for an adult to harm or exploit a child but...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 21, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Zeta Zeta (pseudonym) is a survivor of sexual abuse and rape both as a child and as an adult. She will be writing every now and then for Our Stories Untold, with a special focus on speaking to other survivors about everyday dynamics of struggle and peace that come...
by Our Stories Untold | Dec 18, 2017 | Our Stories Untold Blog
by Tim Wiens Tim Wiens, husband of survivor and Our Stories Untold contributor, Kathy Wiens, writes here about institutional betrayal in response to sexualized violence in the church. We recently published three posts by Kathy Weins that you can find here, here,...