Owning women you’ve never met.
I have a confession to make: I’ve never looked at porn. Okay, that’s a lie. But here’s the truth…….I’ve never sought out porn. Ever. Sure, there have been times in High School when a guy flipped me a...
View ArticleSexual harassment as disease and political tool in Egypt
crossposted from As of Yet Untitled. Yesterday in my daily BBC feed I came across six horrifying stories from Egyptian women who experience regular sexual harassment. The psychic effect on women comes...
View ArticleWhen will they update the 12 marks?
In class we’ve been studying a lot about New Monastics. Lots of good stuff that you can read about it in many places, some even on this blog. Since it’s a fluid movement, I was wondering when they are...
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A New-Old Call to Radical Christian Community
“Community”, “Radical Discipleship”, “Prophetic Witness”: An urgent and self-giving Christianity has taken hold of the imaginations of a new generation of the faithful. Group houses of sincere young...
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Patterns of this World, part 3: Patriarchy, Pacifism and Powerlessness
In the first article of this series, I did a broad overview of the bureaucratization trends in the Mennonite Church. In the second article, I looked specifically at the philosophy of institutions put...
View ArticleWho do we want to be?
I’ll admit at the outset–I used to read YAR and comment on post back in the day, but got busy with seminary. But, now that I’m out of school I’ve had renewed time and interest in reading again. I...
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Grieving and Honoring 5 years of Young Anabaptist Radicals
Yesterday was 5 years to the day since my first post here on YAR, a week after Eric opened things up. I was writing a little over a month after I returned to the United States from two and a half...
View ArticleWhat I learned at the Open Door
This article was originally published in the October 2011 issue of Hospitality, the newspaper of the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia Last year was not my best year. Looking back I understand...
View ArticleAdrienne Rich: Visionary (1929-2012)
Several months ago I drafted a post on Occupy Wall Street suggesting that people interested in thinking through issues of race and gender (re)turn to Adrienne Rich as a wise source. We so often forget...
View ArticleReview of “Pink Smoke over the Vatican”
"Pink Smoke Over the Vatican" tells the story of the struggle for women to be ordained in the Roman Catholic Church. Through interviews and historical vignettes, it portrays the tragedy of deeply...
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The Femonite: A new gathering space for Anabaptist Feminists
Over a year ago, I wrote about grieving the loss of women’s voices here on Young Anabaptist Radicals, a problem that has plagued this space since almost the beginning. In the last 7 months, I’ve been...
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How men are necessary in the movement to end sexualized violence
This piece by Rachel Halder is cross-posted from Our Stories Untold, a blog provoking conversation and allowing women and men to tell their stories about sexualized violence within religion,...
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Stories Long Untold: The Yuckiness of the Cross and Sexualized Violence
As I attempt to focus on the death of Jesus today, on Good Friday, I find it difficult. I’d rather check Facebook, read a magazine or stare out the window. Tonight there’s a church service that I’ll...
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Changing the World Inside of Us: Undoing Sexism among the Mennonites
crossposted from As of Yet Untitled It was five years ago in May 2008 when the Mennonite bishops of Lancaster (Pa.) Mennonite Conference finally allowed minsterial credentialing of women in their...
View ArticleWanted: Stories of Women & Leadership in Mennonite Church USA (which I always...
“I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.” ~Leslie Marmon Silko I truly...
View ArticleTime to confront John Howard Yoder’s sexual assault and abuse and Mennonite...
by Barbra Graber This is cross-posted from Our Stories Untold I remember the Sunday morning two Mennonite Youth Fellowship friends were made to get up in front of the congregation to publicly confess...
View ArticleThe Politics of John Howard Yoder: 41 years of tiptoeing around power
This is cross-posted from As of Yet Untitled The last two months have seen a growing number of articles on John Howard Yoder’s sexual harassment and abuse of women (for a list of articles, see the...
View ArticleA Letter From the Exiles
Douglas Jacobsen in his essay “Anabaptist Autonomy, Evangelical Engulfment” describes a Mennonite ‘diaspora’ in two senses. First is the sense that ideas and movements from other denominations and...
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Privilege, Appropriation and Leadership among the neo-Anabaptists
Earlier this month, Charity Erickson wrote an article, "Peace Reformation = Humble Leaders" that offered some questions and challenges for neo-Anabaptists around leadership and the roots of this...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the MCUSA
When I began looking for an Anabaptist congregation, I was immediately drawn to the San Antonio Mennonite Church here in the Alamo City. Truth be told, I probably would have stayed within our...
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