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,

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),

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?