“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All
the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. [The
perpetrator] appeals to the universal desire to see, hear and speak no
evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the
burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering.”
Sometime in the early 90’s, associate editor of the Mennonite Brethren Herald, James Coggins, was commissioned by a consortium of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ editors to write an article entitled “Should we report scandal in the Mennonite press?” It was printed in the April 1991 issue of MBH. Coggins answers the question with a resounding yes. His reasons for reporting scandal and naming names include these positive outcomes:
http://www.ourstoriesuntold.com/why-we-name-names/
Sometime in the early 90’s, associate editor of the Mennonite Brethren Herald, James Coggins, was commissioned by a consortium of Mennonite and Brethren in Christ editors to write an article entitled “Should we report scandal in the Mennonite press?” It was printed in the April 1991 issue of MBH. Coggins answers the question with a resounding yes. His reasons for reporting scandal and naming names include these positive outcomes:
http://www.ourstoriesuntold.com/why-we-name-names/