- News release: Sexual abuse prevention panel formed (Dec. 1, 2015)
- News release: Discernment Group on sexual abuse and the church ends its work; New group is forming to address sexual abuse within Mennonite Church USA (Oct. 8, 2015)
- News release: Service of lament and hope, wailing wall, churchwide statement to acknowledge sexual abuse (June 19, 2015)
- News release: KC2015 offerings to support sexual abuse survivors, Racial/Ethnic leadership education (May 12, 2015)
- Members of the AMBS community, past and present, gathered on March 22, 2015, to listen to the stories of women abused by former professor John Howard Yoder and to lament and apologize for the seminary’s inadequate responses and to express commitment to ongoing transparency and fostering healing. Full-text documents of some of the statements presented at the afternoon service are available on the Reunion, Listening, Confessing page.
- The Mennonite, via T-mail, publishes the article, AMBS holds lament service for Yoder victims by Rich Preheim. March 23, 2015.
- Mennonite World Review publishes the article, AMBS on abuse: ‘We failed you’: Seminary apologizes for years of covering up abuse by theologian by Rich Preheim.
- The Elkhart (Ind.) Truth publishes the article, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary apologizes to victims of sexual abuse by former leader John Howard Yoder by Michelle Sokol. March 22, 2015.
- The Mennonite, via T-mail, announces that the John Howard Yoder documents are made public. February 2015.
- The Mennonite publishes the article, The failure to bind and loose: Responses to Yoder’s sexual abuse by Rachel Waltner Goossen, excerpted from her longer article in the Mennonite Quarterly Review (MQR). January 2015.
- Mennonite Quarterly Review publishes Rachel Waltner Goossen’s article, “Defanging the Beast:” Mennonite Responses to John Howard Yoder’s Sexual Abuse. January 2015.
- Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary issues a statement acknowledging the pain suffered by women who were victimized by Yoder. December 2014.
- Theology and Misconduct: The case of John Howard Yoder, The Christian Century, authored by David Cramer, Jenny Howell, Paul Martens, and Jonathan Tran. August 2014.
- An Update from the Discernment Group, June 2014
- Historian to Examine Church’s Response to John Howard Yoder’s Abuse of Women
- A digest of materials which appeared in various blogs and websites about John Howard Yoder at about the same time that our Discernment Group started. They are included here in order to show the broader context of discussion regarding Yoder’s abuse, not as an endorsement of all viewpoints shared.
- Sara Wenger Shenk’s blog on “Revisiting the Legacy of John Howard Yoder”
- Ervin Stutzman’s column, “Acknowledging difficult stories of sexual abuse from the past”
- Denominational Response to John Howard Yoder legacy
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