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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.

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.

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.

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 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.