Category: Ethics
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Thoughts On “Hitting Submit”
So, we finally hit submit on a manuscript 3 years in the making, and eeekkk!! My last post was about a collaboration between myself, Mary Byler, Rhoda Witmer, and Jasper Hoffman on a research study about the frequency of child sexual abuse within conservative religious groups. Because Plain Anabaptists are insular groups that often are…
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Thoughts on Hierarchies of Abuse
CW: abuse, interpersonal violence (IPV) I started this blog because I occasionally had a tendency to write novel-length Twitter threads in response to some ill-advised tweet from someone. It seemed better to create a blog instead of expect people to read a 20-tweet-long thread. That hasn’t happened in the time since I started this blog,…
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Thoughts on the Ripples Between Individual and Organizational Abuse
CW: Sex Abuse, Sex Offenders, Organizational Enabling So, Amish Facebook and TikTok have been in an uproar since late last week, so much of an uproar that I have heard about – even though I am not Amish and I am not on Facebook or TikTok. The uproar centers around one individual, Mahlon Miller of…
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Thoughts on Mennonite Church USA, Dove’s Nest, and Goshen College’s Dr. Jeanette Harder
CW: rape culture, abuse enabling, church complacency In 2019, Allen Hoover and Dr. Jeanette Harder co-authored a book intended to discuss abuse in “our” Plain communities. That may have been the first sign of a problem, given the fact that Jeanette Harder is not, and never has been, Plain. Although Allen Hoover is Plain, the…
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Thoughts on To a Girl of 11 from Sacred Subjects
CW: child sexual abuse, incest, rape culture For a small book – a booklet, really – To a Girl of Eleven has given me a large number of thoughts, none of them good. For those who are not aware, To a Girl of Eleven is a part of a series of books, The Sacred Subjects,…
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Thoughts on “Evil Triumphing”
There is a popularly known phrase, often (mis)attributed to Edmund Burke, although John Stuart Mills is known to have said something similar: “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men [people] to do nothing.” (John Stuart Mills’ quote is “Bad men [people] need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good…
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Thoughts on Academics “Selling Out”
I have thought a lot about academic integrity, and the ways in which some academics choose to “sell” their academic integrity in exchange for access to research participants, social clout, or professional status. This is often seen as a harmless “exchange,” but it has real consequences for people outside of academia, people who often don’t…
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