Month: July 2019

Updates

Jul 31, 2019

Why I choose to “forgive and remember” instead of “forgive and forget”

After decades of silence, it has come. Like a tsunami, revelations of longstanding sexual abuse within the Amish and Mennonite circles have finally “made land,” and the ground, it seems,

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Jul 26, 2019

Why I won’t insulate my sons (or myself) from “the world”

I grew up in a conservative, Mennonite tradition. Acapella hymns on hard, wooden benches. Church, three times a week. A fortnight of Bible School in the summer (a true delight),

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Jul 22, 2019

A white Christian girl goes to the beach

It’s a searing July day. We’ve fled to the beach to escape the heat, and at water’s edge, there he is. A man is lying in the froth and surf.What?

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