“I believe, based on my experience of leadership in three different Mennonite institutions (Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Virginia Mennonite Conference), that there are ways MCC could have responded (and still could) that would relieve the suffering of those who’ve been harmed, and enhance the integrity and vitality of MCC. While I’m aware that there are disagreements about the facts and what constitutes abuse, what seems indisputable to me is that the public statements MCC has made, with their minimizations and denials of abuse, have only exacerbated the sense of institutional betrayal for those in pain.”