Why I Chose to Fast
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The choice to fast was made at the core of my spiritual being. It was to express, with my entire body, in a language beyond words, my thirst for justice.
I had been pleading for justice through the avenues available to me within the Mennonite community for years, and for almost twenty years my requests for justice had been denied.
The sexual abuse that I suffered had been discussed as an open secret for years. My father confessed, in front of the family, that he had raped me. Under the guise of a "pastoral visit", my pastor, Henry Wiebe, deceptively extracted ...
