Introduction (Michael & Kim)

Part 1 Theory

1. Power (Michael)
a. What is power?
b. Dynamics of power and sexual abuse
c. Dynamics of power and spiritual abuse
d. Church polity: does it even matter?
e. Why policies and procedures cannot help either
f. Power seeking ideology: a toolkit for how to mishandle sexual abuse

2. Sexuality (Kim)
a. What is sexuality?
b. Sexual violence in our institutions
c. Social inequalities as factors in sexual abuse (an intersectional look)
d. What does it mean to be survivor-centred?
e. Culture and policy: institutional oversight of individual sexuality
f. Cultivating notions of healthy sexuality and embodiment

3. Theology (Kim)
a. What is theology?
b. Institutional responsibility in theological formation
c. Theological formation as sexual formation
d. Theo-ethical norms and sexual abuse
e. Theo-ethical norms and sexual integrity
f. Sexual integrity and spiritual wholeness

Part 2 Mennonite Communities

4. Fictionalized American University (Michael)
a. Case study and responses
b. Teaching students instead of sleeping with them
c. Charisma and the “self-sufficient man” (Willie James Jennings)
d. Mennonite peaceableness – or cronyism?
e. Personality vs. character
f. Everyone a prophet: revisioning the priesthood of all believers

5. Fictionalized Canadian School (Kim)
a. Survivor-centred fictional vignette
b. Theo-ethical norm of peace
c. Role of leadership and policy
d. Power and community
e. Toward erotic peace-making

Part 3 Anglican/Episcopal Communities

6. Fictionalized Episcopal Seminary (Carolyn)
a. Case study timeline and responses
b. Hilary Scarsella on the “powerless bystander” defense
c. Limited knowledge, limited responsibility, limited power
d. Church and state: juxtaposing civil and ecclesial discipline
e. Community solidarity and institutional betrayal
f. Ordination processes as formation in alliance-making
7. Fictionalized Canadian Diocese (Michael and Carolyn)
a. Fictional vignette
b. Ingroups: creation and cultivation
c. Clericalism and loving bishops
d. Patriarchy with a woman's face
e. To bind and to protect: the two uses of canon law
f. Colonial violence, white supremacy, and sexual violence

Part 4 Evangelical Communities

8. American Evangelical Church Planting Network (Allison Murray & Ike Shepardson)
a. Case study timeline and responses
b. Evangelical notions of power & authority
c. Binary thinking and its impact on truth telling
d. The cult of celebrity and the success myth
e. How purity culture hurts victims of abuse
9. Fictional Canadian Evangelical Church (Allison Murray & Ike Shepardson)
a. Case study timeline and responses
b. Cross-border texts and parachurch influences
c. Complementarianism vs. egalitarianism
d. Reluctant stars and institutional anti-institutionalism
e. No rules, no recourse

Conclusion (Michael and Kim)