Showing posts with label Mennonite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mennonite. Show all posts
Friday, November 20, 2020

Jeff Altaras, "Evil Thrives When Good People Remain Silent": Discussion of Sexual Abuse in the Mennonite Context

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I'm pleased to have the opportunity to share with Bilgrimage readers a fine statement by Jeff Altaras, commenting on the response of som...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

Cameron Altaras's "Voice of the Residue": The Intergenerational Trauma of Growing up Female in a Patriarchal Religious Context

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In the past, I have shared here some of the valuable work of Cameron Altaras, a scholar working to combat sexual violence based in patriarch...
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Ruth Krall, "A Sin or a Crime?"

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David Stoltzfus Smucker (age 75) wheeled into court in Lancaster, PA,  Pittsburg Post-Gazette, 24 Jan. 2020 I'm happy to share tod...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

"This Is Happening in our Country Today and Is Being Done in All of Our Names": An Advent Sermon by Lisa Koop

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Christian Trump supporters, take note. https://t.co/xn3kCgkjaA — Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 24, 2019 I'm happy to be ab...
Monday, December 16, 2019

Ruth Krall, "The Good Samaritan: Pious Parable or Subversive Instruction?"

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Vincent van Gogh, "The Good Samaritan," original in the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, The Netherlands, uploaded to Wikimedia...
Saturday, October 5, 2019

Douglas Hostetter, Interfaith Paths to Peace

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Photo is from Doug Hostetter's Picture of Peace website . INTERFAITH PATHS TO PEACE Douglas Hostetter United Nations NGO Repr...
Friday, August 16, 2019

Ruth Krall, Moral Corruption in the Religious Commons (3)

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Theodore Rombouts, (1597-1617), " Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple " The following is the third part of Ru...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Ruth Krall, Moral Corruption in the Religious Commons (2)

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Theodore Rombouts, (1597-1617), " Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple " The essay below is the second installm...
Friday, August 9, 2019

Ruth Krall, Moral Corruption in the Religious Commons (1)

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Theodore Rombouts, (1597-1617), "Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple" (i) My house shall be called a house o...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Ruth Krall, Historical Meandering: Ideologies of Abuse and Exclusion (2)

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Vasily Polenov, Le droit du Seigneur (1874), in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow The essay below is the second part of Ruth Krall'...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Ruth Krall, Looking Slant: Oppressive Ideologies and Belief Systems

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Ebola: Transporting a Sick Child to a Care Facility (1) The essay by Ruth Krall that follows below is the fourth in a series of essays...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Ruth Krall, Religious Leader Sexual Abuse: A Pan-Denominational Approach (Part 2)

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Transferring an Ebola Patient for Transport to a Care Facility   Religious Leader Sexual Abuse: A Pan-Denominational Approach Rut...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Ruth Krall, "In a Roman Catholic Voice: Clergy and Religious Leader Sexual Abuse of the Laity — A Study Bibliography of Resources"

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L'Osservatore Romano/AP Pool Photo, BXVI's 65th anniversary of ordination, 28 June 2016 Pope Francis (i) with Pope Emeritus Benedi...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Stephanie Krehbiel on Religious Groups Facing Abuse Revelations: "Godly Men, Be Quiet"

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This map shows routes of several Southern #Baptist "travelers;" men who preyed on people in one church role & went on to an...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Ruth Krall, "Reflections Vis-à-vis Today’s SNAP": A Guest Posting — "Onus Is on the Newly Configured SNAP Board to Move into Transparency with All of Its Members"

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As longtime Bilgrimage readers will know, I've been a longtime supporter of the group Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests (...
Friday, January 26, 2018

David Martin, "#MeToo in the Pew Next to You," with Preface by Cameron Altaras

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It's my privilege today to be able to offer you a valuable statement by Rev. David Martin, Executive Minister of the Mennonite Ch...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Cameron Altaras, "Mennonite Harvey Weinsteins, or #MeToo in the Mennonite World"

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I'm honored today to share with you another essay from the Mennonite world, one making powerful connections between the #MeToo mo...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Ruth E. Krall, "January 6, 2018: Early Morning Reverie" — "Institutional Abuse Magnifies the Criminality of the Original Abuse"

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This powerful essay came to my email from Ruth Krall yesterday on the traditional date for the Christian feast of the Epiphany. As with e...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Ruth Krall's Important Book Living on the Edge of the Edge: Paradox of Violent Exclusion of LGBTQ People from Christian Communities That Cover Up Sexual Violence by Clergy

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I'd like to recommend a new book to you today: I don't only recommend this book; I  highly  recommend it. It will one day, I ...
Friday, October 7, 2016

A Reader Writes: "Oh, But It Isn't Rome Burning, It's Everywhere Else" — And I Reply: Yes, the Burning Is Everywhere; Instead of Talking Rome, How About We Talk Trump?

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In response to my posting yesterday about Pope Francis' recent remarks about "gender theory" and the need of Catholic c...