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Box 1: urban church and church planting subject files

box 2: Mennonite Distorter, FCM Informer, church constitutions

box 3: General Conference Peace and Social Concerns Committee 1960s-70s

box 4: city churches, Peace Conference Winona Lake 1950, race and Mennonites 1960-70, Peace and Social Concerns Reference Council, Mennonite homosexuality studies, intentional community, miscellaneous files

box 5: Mennonite connections to radical right, New Call to Peacemaking, Mennonite drama, Dialogue on Faith October 1984, peace evangelism, capital punishment, Shalom church beginning

box 6: catechism workbooks, miscellaneous pamphlets and books, 1837 Mennonite Confession of Faith book

box 7: newspapers and magazines 1968-69, all on race relations

box 8: materialism study conference 1965, peace and service packet, Mennonite Church in the City

box 9: Mennonite Peace Theology Colloquium 1976, John Howard Yoder materials, Peace Tax Fund

box 10: war tax resistance, dramas by Mennonites, Rainbow church history, Central District conference minister file

box 11: Church and Society conference 1961, Mennonite Distorter, CHM Executive Committee July 1975

RESTRICTED, Palmer Becker correspondence, Darrell Fast correspondence, miscellaneous

box 12: actually a map folder-oversize panoramic photos

box 13: subject files

box 14: subject files, minutes of peace tax group, Spanish language church plant (Casa Betania?)

box 15-16: sermons, some subject files

box 17-19: subject files

box 20: peace tax materials, including audio cassettes

box 21: subject files, mostly Newton-area anti-racism efforts

box 22: subject files

box 23: subject files; audio cassettes related to China missions (C. L. Pannabecker?)

box 24: subject file - John Howard Yoder; photos - mostly China-related (C. L. Pannabecker?); Amish slides - commercially produced [brought in by Stan Bohn, 14 Feb 2018]; John Howard Yoder correspondence [from Stan Bohn, 22 Jan 2019]; Newton Area Peace Center - Peace Tax group [from Stan Bohn, 22 Jan 2019]

Documents collected and oral histories recorded during the course of Goossen's research on John Howard Yoder's sexual abuse of women.  Goossen's research was published in an article entitled, "'Defanging the Beast': Mennonite Responses to John Howard Yoder’s Sexual Abuse" (Mennonite Quarterly Review 69 (January 2015).  Materials in this collection include documents collected by various individuals close to John Howard Yoder, the various intervention attempts, and the disciplinary process, Goossen's correspondence with various sources close to the events, documents collected by Goossen herself, and ten oral history interviews.

Personal papers of a Mennonite psychotherapist with professional expertise in trauma recovery, personal and communal healing, and pastoral boundary issues. Heggen is the author of Sexual Abuse in Christian Homes and Churches (1993) and a frequent presenter nationally and internationally.

In the early 1990s she played a crucial role in bringing John Howard Yoder's repeated violation of women to light by facilitating communication among women who had been violated by Yoder, and by calling upon church authorities to hold Yoder accountable for his actions.  Heggen is also a co-developer and co-presenter of Mennonite Women USA's Sister Care seminars.

Materials in this collection include selected sermons, lectures, workshops, and presentations, reviews of and correspondence received in response to her book on sexual abuse in Christian environments, correspondence and other documents pertaining to the 1992 complaint against John Howard Yoder's sexual misconduct, subject files pertaining to her work with United Mission to Nepal and Mennonite Central Committee, photographs, and miscellaneous materials.

SERIES 1 AND 2 RESTRICTED UNTIL 2040

This collection is focused on Ruth Krall's research and activism related to sexual abuse in the Mennonite Church. It is divided into 3 series, with the first two making up the majority of the collection.

Series 1) SNAP Menno Working Files
This is composed of working files created by Krall during the course of her work as convener for SNAP-Menno during its formation from 2014 to 2016. Files include email correspondence, memos, and published press releases related to SNAP-Menno's advocacy work. Files also contain periodic personal journal entries recording Krall's reflections on the work of SNAP-Menno and her analysis of intra-group conflicts related to diverging activism strategies.

Series 2) John Howard Yoder Clerical Abuse Research
This series begins following Krall's retirement from Goshen College in 2003 and ends with the publication of her series on clerical abuse called "The Elephant in God's Living Room" in 2013. The series contains volumes I-V of "The Elephant in God's Living Room," as well as correspondence, research materials, personal notes, and journal entries. A significant amount of material was removed from this series, including items from John Howard Yoder's MC USA Archives collection, publications, and books. Items that were removed are noted in the collection.

Series 3) Assorted Writings
This short series contains writings from Ruth Krall not related to SNAP Menno or Clerical Abuse. Included here are Krall's 2009 reflections on a sabbatical, a presentation Krall gave on healing in 2003, and a presentation given by Lauren Friesen that analyzes Krall's contribution to Mennonite peacemaking.

SERIES 1 AND 2 RESTRICTED UNTIL 2040

Files documenting the Indiana-Michigan Conference's suspension of John Howard Yoder's ministerial credentials because of sexual misconduct and the ensuing disciplinary process. Researchers will find twelve folders of materials authored by conference administrators, the Indiana-Michigan Conference Church Life Commission, John Howard Yoder's accountability and support group, and John Howard Yoder himself. Documents include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and follow-up documentation provided by the conference in 2013 and 2014.

Documents pertaining to the process by which John Howard Yoder and his employer, then Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), navigated difficult personal and institutional relationships created by Yoder's sexual indiscretions and harrassment of women.  These materials were collected and created by then seminary president Marlin E. Miller.  Materials include documents pertaining to Yoder's ordination and church membership, contracts with AMBS, Yoder's papers on singleness, marriage, and sexuality and AMBS faculty members' responses, materials pertaining to Yoder's covenant group at AMBS, documents about his resignation, and correspondence with various parties during and after Yoder's period of employment at AMBS.

A small set of files pertaining to John Howard Yoder.  Materials include correspondence regarding Yoder's seminar at Eastern Mennonite University in January 1997 and former Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) president Nelson Kraybill's correspondence regarding John Howard Yoder in 1997 and 1998.

A small set of documents from the files of former Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) board member Evelyn Shellenberger.  Duplicate documents found in X-18-001 were removed from Shellenberger's files for the convenience of researchers.  Materials include correspondence from and about John Howard Yoder regarding his harassment of women and his continued presence at AMBS.