Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Excerpt: "Perhaps the most powerful first-person story shared by a Mennonite in the past year has yet to appear in traditional print. It was instead publishing on a blog with a fairly modest following on Facebook. And yet, Sharon Detweiler’s January 9 story, posted on the Our Stories Untold site, produced considerable discussion, both on the site itself and in other Mennonite-related venues. “John Howard Yoder: My Untold Story After Sixty Years of Silence” narrates Detweiler’s experiences with Yoder, her attempts to report his sexual abuse, and the ways Mennonite leadership failed to hear her story. After years of silence, Detweiler writers that she is compelled to share her suffering so that others who likewise faced abuse—from Yoder or others—may know they are not alone."
Recommended Citation
Mock, Melanie Springer, "Book Review: Ordinary Miracles: Awakening to the Holy Work of Parenting, A Memoir with Pictures, and When the Roll is Called a Pyonder: Tales from a Mennonite Childhood" (2015). Faculty Publications - Department of English. 115.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/eng_fac/115
Comments
Originally published in Mennonite Life (Summer 2015), Issue 2015, Vol. 69.
https://ml.bethelks.edu/issue/vol-69/article/review-ordinary-miracles-awakening-to-the-holy-wor/